Boston Massecure

Question 1

Townshend acts

Answer 1

a series of taxes on colonial imports from Britain. They also established a board of customs to oversee the collection of these taxes.

Question 2

what were the imports from Britain that the British taxed in the Townshend acts

Answer 2

Paper, paints, lead, glass, and tea.

Question 3

What did Lord Frederick North realize when he became the New Prime minister of Great Britain in 1770

Answer 3

That it costed more to enforce the taxes then they were making collecting them.

Question 4

did Lord Frederick North sympathize with the colonist

Answer 4

No.

Question 5

what did the British do when they repealed the Townshend act, what tax did they leave.

Answer 5

They left the tax on tea to remind the colonist that Parliament has the power to tax them.

Question 6

Because of who’s suggestion did Boston form a committee of correspondence?

Answer 6

Samuel Adams

Question 7

What did Samuel Adams write in his newspapers

Answer 7

warnings that the peace with Britain was only temporary.

Question 8

What did the committee of correspondence do?

Answer 8

21 men kept neighboring towns informed of problems with Britain and let America’s position be known to the world.

Question 9

The British East Indian Company

Answer 9

a company on the verge of bankruptcy that had piled heaps of surplus tea on the docks of London

Question 10

In the Charleston harbor, what did the colonist leave to spoil on the dock

Answer 10

British Tea

Question 53

regeneration

Answer 53

the regrowth of a lost body part

Question 54

cnidarians

Answer 54

marine animals with stinging bristles

Question 55

nematocystes

Answer 55

the special stinging cells cnidarians

Question 56

mollusk

Answer 56

derived from latin meaning soft

Question 57

bivalve

Answer 57

a mollusk with 2 shells

Question 58

mantle

Answer 58

a growth organ that lines a mollusks inner shell

Question 59

radula

Answer 59

a hard, strong band used to scrape food

Question 60

echinoderms

Answer 60

animals that live in the ocean and have spiny skin

Question 61

arthropod

Answer 61

an invertebrate that has a segmented body, jointed appendages and an exoskeleton

Question 62

throax

Answer 62

the center segment of an insect or arthropods

Question 63

abdomen

Answer 63

the hind body segment of an insect or other arthropod

Question 64

cephalothorax

Answer 64

the body segment of crustaceans and arachnids that consists of the head and the head and thorax fused together.

Question 65

crustacean

Answer 65

an arthropod that has 5 or more pairs of legs and two pairs of antennae

Question 66

Maxilliped:

Answer 66

the appendage that helps a crustacean eat

Question 67

Centipede

Answer 67

a flat-bodied arthropod with 1 pair of legs on each body segment.

Question 68

Millipede

Answer 68

a round-bodied arthropod with 2 pairs of legs on each body segment.

Question 69

Arachnid

Answer 69

an arthropod with 2 body segments and 8 legs.

Question 70

Metamorphosis

Answer 70

a series of physical changes that certain animals undergo.

Question 71

Entomologist

Answer 71

a scientist who studies insects.

Question 72

Ectotherm

Answer 72

an organism that uses the environment to regulate its body temperature.