A Ship

What is a ship?

• A large vessel that floats on water.

• Lloyd's register.

• Any transport.

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Ships may be found on ...

• roads, deserts and mountains

• lakes, seas and

  rivers

• everywhere

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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Ships perform for a variety of activities, such as ...

• the teller the history of humankind.

• the key in history's great explorations and scientific and

  technological developments.

• the transport of people or

  goods, fishing, entertainment, public safety, and warfare.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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Ships are generally distinguished from

boats based...

• on size and passenger capacity.

• on length and lifting capacity.

• on width and tonnage.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Ships and boats have developed alongside mankind.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Commercial vessels carry billion tons of weapons and bombs.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Vessels were also key in history's great explorations and scientific and

technological developments.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Ships have been used for such purposes as colonization

and the slave trade.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Ships have never told you the history of humankind.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Thor Heyerdahl is...

• the great navigator

• the great desert explorer

• the great cave explorer

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2