Room 613 Social Studies Forms

 Name: _______________________________ HR ______________
6th Grade Social Studies – Mr. Hetherington
Technology and Modern Life – Class Assignment
Review the time line on page 23 and choose (in your opinion) the five most important inventions or discoveries. List them below:
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Place the above inventions in chronological order (date order from earliest to most recent) in [...]

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Chapter 2 – Section 2  Physical Geography
Forces – The Earth’s Crust
 
The earths crust is made up of tectonic plates, huge slabs of rock up to 20 miles thick that float on top of hot molten rock called magma.
 
If two continental plates smash against each other, the collision produces high mountain ranges.
If a continental plate and [...]

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Geography
 
1.     Physical Geography – study of the physical features of the earth- land, water, plants and animals
2.     Human Geography – the study of people- where they live, how they change and how they are influenced by their environment.
 
Geographer’s study:
·        Physical characteristics of a place – where is something located? What is it like?
·        Human [...]

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 Mr. Hetherington Grade 6 Social Studies – Oceans and Bodies of Water
Name: ___________________________________________ HR. ______________
Read the 4 paragraphs in this section and write one MAIN IDEA Sentence and one Supporting Detail Sentence for each paragraph. – IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Paragraph 1 MAIN IDEA
SUPPORTING DETAIL
Paragraph 2 MAIN IDEA
SUPPORTING DETAIL
Paragraph 3 MAIN IDEA
SUPPORTING DETAIL
Paragraph 4 MAIN IDEA
SUPPORTING DETAIL
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 Mr. Hetherington – 6th Grade Social Studies
Essay Question Guide for Chapter 2 Test
 
Please review your study guides, Chapter 2 in your textbook and your notes and be ready to write short but complete test answers to the following questions.

Describe what happens when a continental plate and an ocean plate collide.

What is the “Greenhouse Effect” in [...]

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 Mr. Hetherington 6th Grade Social Studies
Landforms Book Project

Instructions for the project:
On the attached blank form you will find three boxes next to each landform name.
Fill in the three boxes for each landform as follows

FIRST BOX – Write the definition of the landform. Please print neatly! You can find the definitions on page 14 and 15, [...]

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