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6th grade semester check
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1
Which of the following is an example of assimilation?
Cooking dinner for your friends
Learning the language after moving to a new country
Wearing cowboys boots to the beach
Reading a history novel
2
How many branches of government are in the United States?
3
27
10
12
3
Which word is most closely related to the word “agriculture?”
Government
Farming
Factory
Entertainment
4
Which of the following was
not
an ancient empire that ruled in the Fertile Crescent?
Akkadians
Babylonians
Sumerians
Spartans
5
An archipelago is...
a swampy wetland
a mountain peak usually covered with snow
a chain of islands
a small stream that flows into a larger river
6
System in which goods are owned by individuals or businesses
Capitalist
Socialist
Communist
7
Wars led by European kings for control of the Holy Lands near Jerusalem
Dark Ages
Crusades
8
Which words are the opening statement in the Constitution?
“Let my people go…”
“We the People..”
“Forescore and seven years ago…”
“... I have a dream”
9
Which of the following reasons is a
push
factor for migration?
Cheap land
Civil War
Job opportunities
Better life
10
System of government, typically after revolution/civil war, in which there is no governing body
Dictatorship
Monarchy
Democracy
Anarchy
11
Which of the following is protected by the Bill of Rights
Owning a business
Serving in the Army
Public Education
Protection from unfair punishment
12
Excess of this valuable resource has brought incredible amounts of wealth to the Middle East?
Timber
Gold
Oil
Fertile Soil
13
Mesopotamia is defined as 'Land between two rivers', What are the two rivers?
Tigris and Nile
Missouri and Mississippi
Euphrates and Tigris
Yellow and Red
14
Which type of government is ruled by religion?
Dictatorship
Anarchy
Theocracy
Democracy
15
“Rebirth” Knowledge from the Greco-Roman times and spread from trade with the Silk Road
Renaissance
Protestant Reformation
16
What resource is scarce in the Middle East?
Diamonds
Water
Petroleum
Diamonds
17
When was the Declaration of Independence approved and signed?
1607
1492
1776
1787
18
What line of longitude divides the Eastern Hemisphere from the Western Hemisphere?
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
The Equator
The Prime Meridian
19
Which of the following is
NOT
one of the 3 monotheistic religions?
Judaism
Hinduism
Islam
Christianity
20
Which of the following is correctly ordered from smallest to largest?
cove, bay, gulf
cove, gulf, bay
bay, cove, gulf
bay, gulf, cove
21
What term is given to an area where only 3 sides are surrounded by water?
delta
tributary
estuary
peninsula
22
A young Greek General who conquered the Persian Empire spreading Greek culture
Adolf Hitler
Alexander the Great
23
What is the longest river in the United States?
Nile River
Rio Grande
Mississippi River
Missouri River
24
What is a term for an ancient Egyptian ruler?
Monarch
Pharaoh
Priest
Dictator
25
Which event is further into the past, an older event?
Alexander the Great dies 323 BC
Roger Bacon Invents Gunpowder 1280 AD
Greeks defeat Persians at Battle of Marathon 490 BC
Invention of Printing press 1440 AD
