JH WEEKLIES ISSUE #22
2011-2012
WORKSHEETS
Each of the following five worksheets contains one page of questions and another page of
answers on a particular topic. Questions can be read aloud or students can fill in the answers on
their own. The worksheets can be used for practice and studying purposes, or however the coach
deems necessary.
GENERAL INFORMATION (Interdisciplinary)
“M” Words: Identify these words that begin and end with the letter “m.”
1. 1,000 years.
2. The smallest available number or amount.
3. The full name for a written reminder.
4. A relationship between two organisms in which both benefit.
5. A believer of the Islam religion.
6. The material through which sound travels.
7. The member of Group 2 on the Periodic Table that has an atomic number of 12.
8. A spore-bearing type of fungus.
9. An institution that displays articles of lasting value and interest.
10. A science that deals with an object’s attraction to iron.
11. Random or deliberate violence or damage.
12. Decorative combined initials of a name.
13. One-thousandth of a gram.
14. A large tomb or building used to bury people above the ground.
15. The greatest amount or number available.
16. The product of the mass and velocity of an object.
17. The rate at which food is changed into energy in the body.
18. A ray of light from earth’s only natural satellite.
19. A type of bacteria or fungi that is too small to be view by the naked eye.
20. A verb meaning to harm, injure, or disfigure.
ANSWERS:
1 . millennium
2 . minimum
3 . memorandum
4 . mutualism
5 . Muslim
6 . medium
7 . magnesium
8 . mushroom
9 . museum
10 . magnetism
11 . mayhem
12 . monogram
13 . milligram
14 . mausoleum
15 . maximum
16 . momentum
17 . metabolism
18 . moonbeam
19 . microorganism
20 . maim
SOCIAL STUDIES (History)
U.S History Facts: Identify these U.S. history facts.
1. Sir Walter Raleigh founded the first English colony on this island off the North Carolina coast.
2. These acts in 1767 levied taxes on glass, paper, and tea.
3. This captain of the Bonhomme Richard defeated the Serapis in 1779.
4. This 1784 treaty formally ended the Revolutionary War.
5. This 1807 Act banned all trade with foreign countries.
6. He was inaugurated as America’s seventh president in 1829.
7. This Indian tribe was forced to walk “The Trail of Tears” in 1838.
8. The first Women’s Rights Convention was held in this New York town in July 1848.
9. He published his popular song, “My Old Kentucky Home” in 1853.
10. The first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln was elected in 1860.
11. The Civil War began in 1861 when Confederates fired on this fort.
12. This 1865 Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery.
13. The first transcontinental railroad was completed in this state in 1869.
14. During what war did the United Kingdom burn the White House and the U.S. Capitol?
15. This U.S. president was shot on July 2, 1881 and died in September.
16. This Act, passed in July1890, attempted to curb monopolies.
17. This 1896 Supreme Court case approved “separate but equal” racial segregation.
18. This U.S. battleship was blown up in Havana Cuba on February 15, 1898.
19. This city hosted the first Olympics in the U.S. in 1904.
20. America’s Baseball Hall of Fame was founded in this New York town in 1936.
ANSWERS:
1 . Roanoke
2 . Townshend Acts
3 . John Paul Jones
4 . Treaty of Paris
5 . Embargo Act
6 . Andrew Jackson
7 . Cherokee
8 . Seneca Falls
9 . Stephen Foster
10 . South Carolina
11 . Fort Sumter
12 . 13th
13 . Utah
14 . War of 1812
15 . James Garfield
16 . Sherman Antitrust Act
17 . Plessy v. Ferguson
18 . USS Maine
19 . St. Louis
20 . Cooperstown
SCIENCE (General Science)
Famous Scientists: Give the last name of the scientist associated with each of these clues. If
you are correct, all your answers will be in alphabetical order.
1. French physicist who gave his name to the unit of electrical current.
2. Danish physicist and chemist who established the structure of the atom.
3. U.S. biologist who wrote Silent Spring.
4. Astronomer who discovered the gap in Saturn’s rings, which is now named for him.
5. Naturalist famous for his Theory of Evolution.
6. German born physicist famous for his theories of relativity.
7. Dutch physicist who invented the thermometer.
8. Italian-born U.S. physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and the first controlled
chain reaction in a nuclear reactor.
9. Swedish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin.
10. English zoologist who studied chimps in Tanzania.
11. U.S. inventor who discovered how to galvanize rubber.
12. Astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus.
13. German astronomer who showed that the planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun.
14. U.S. physicist who developed the cyclotron.
15. Swedish biologist who introduced the binomial system of taxonomy.
16. Chemist who developed the Periodic Table of Elements.
17. Conservationist who led the campaign to establish Yosemite National Park.
18. Swedish chemist who developed dynamite.
19. English chemist who discovered oxygen and nitric oxide.
20. Hungarian-born U.S. physicist known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb.”
ANSWERS:
1 . Ampere
2 . Bohr
3 . Carson
4 . Cassini
5 . Darwin
6 . Einstein
7 . Fahrenheit
8 . Fermi
9 . Fleming
10 . Goodall
11 . Goodyear
12 . Herschel
13 . Kepler
14 . Lawrence
15 . Linnaeus
16 . Mendeleev
17 . Muir
18 . Nobel
19 . Priestley
20 . Teller
FINE ARTS (Music)
Music Theory: Identify these musical terms and facts.
1. The rate or speed at which music is played.
2. A performance technique consisting of a rapid alternation between two notes.
3. The relative minor key of the B-major key.
4. The number of sharps in the key of A-major.
5. The name given to a three-note chord.
6. A musical instrument consisting of a right-hand keyboard, bellows, and left-hand buttons.
7. The Italian term for a sequence in which notes in chord are played singularly.
8. The note that sits on the third space of the treble clef staff.
9. The note that sits on the bottom line of the bass clef staff.
10. A type of saxophone with a range higher than a baritone sax and lower than an alto sax.
11. The only brass instrument that’s played with the fingers of the left hand.
12. The number of strings on a violin.
13. The moveable tube in the trombone.
14. Another name for the C-clef on the third line of the staff.
15. The largest and lowest-pitched member of the brass family.
16. A common percussion instrument that can be found in the “x” section of the dictionary.
17. The part of the violin to which the fingerboard is attached.
18. A character notated as an “x” on a piece of music that raises the note directly after it
two half-steps.
19. One or more vocalists who perform without accompaniment.
20. The term that indicates a piece is meant to be played smoothly.
ANSWERS:
1 . tempo
2 . trill
3 . G-sharp
4 . three
5 . triad
6 . accordion
7 . arpeggio
8.C
9.G
10 . tenor sax
11 . French horn
12 . four
13 . slide
14 . alto clef
15 . tuba
16 . xylophone
17 . neck
18 . double sharp
19 . a capella
20 . legato
LANGUAGE ARTS (Literature)
Literary Animals: Identify these animal characters from literature.
1. The mouse friend of Benjamin Franklin in Ben and Me.
2. The lion in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series.
3. The main canine character in Jack London’s The Call of the Wild.
4. Harry Potter’s pet owl.
5. Lewis Carroll’s famous feline known for his wide grin.
6. Jody Baxter’s fawn in Marjorie Rawling’s The Yearling.
7. The pet chimp in Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Doolittle book series.
8. The black panther in Kipling’s The Jungle Book.
9. The young pig that is the main character in Ian Falconer’s popular children’s series.
10. Long John Silver’s pet parrot in Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
11. Kipling’s young mongoose who is featured in The Jungle Book.
12. Travis Coates loyal mongrel who contracts rabies.
13. Gepetto’s pet cat in Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio.
14. The horse created by author Anna Sewell.
15. The antagonistic sperm whale in Herman Melville’s most famous novel.
16. Hermione Granger’s pet cat in the Harry Potter book series.
17. A.A. Milne’s most recognizable character who’s original name was Edward Bear.
18. Marguerite Henry’s horse that was foaled on Assateague Island, sired by Pied Piper, out
of a dam called Phantom.
19. The scruffy dog adopted by Opal Buloni in Kate DiCamillo’s 2001 Newbery Honor book.
20. Emily Elizabeth’s enormous pet dog.
ANSWERS:
1 . Amos
2 . Aslan
3 . Buck
4 . Hedwig
5 . Cheshire Cat
6 . Flag
7 . Chee Chee
8 . Bagheera
9 . Olivia
10 . Captain Flint
11 . Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
12 . Old Yeller
13 . Figaro
14 . Black Beauty
15 . Moby Dick
16 . Crookshanks
17 . Winnie-the-Pooh
18 . Misty
19 . Winn-Dixie
20 . Clifford