8th Grade Math
This is the value of x in the equation 2x + 6 = 14
What is 4?
This is the basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
This document, signed in 1776, declared America's independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This term describes the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
This is the chemical symbol for gold.
What is Au?
This term describes a number that can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself.
What is a prime number?
This process allows plants to convert sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This U.S. president delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This literary device gives human traits to non-human things
What is personification?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
This is the Pythagorean theorem, used to find the hypotenuse of this type of triangle.
What is a right triangle?
This molecule carries genetic information in living organisms.
What is DNA?
This ancient civilization built the pyramids of Giza.
What is (Ancient) Egypt?
This author wrote "The Great Gatsby."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This unit measures electrical resistance.
What is the ohm?
This is the slope of a line that passes through points (2,3) and (4,7).
What is 2?
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell."
What is the mitochondria?
This 20th-century conflict was fought primarily between the Allied and Axis powers.
What is World War II?
This term describes the perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
This process describes the splitting of an atomic nucleus, releasing energy.
What is nuclear fission?
This term describes two lines that never intersect and have the same slope
What are parallel lines?
This term describes a change in an organism's DNA sequence, which can lead to genetic variation.
What is a mutation?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This dystopian novel by George Orwell introduced the concept of "Big Brother."
What is 1984?
This equation, developed by Einstein, relates mass and energy.
What is E=mc²?