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attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
What is personification?
A three-dimensional shape having six congruent square faces
What is a cube?
a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down to touch Earth's surface.
What is a tornado?
names of four of the five oceans in the world
What are Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific, and/or Southern?
the continual movement of water among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land surface
What is the water cycle?
the attribute of accepting the facts of life
What is realism?
A segment with endpoints on the circle that passes through its center
What is the diameter?
that experiences the highest number of tornadoes per year.
What is tornado alley?
current world population
What is approximately 7.97 billion?
the smallest country in the world
What is the Vatican?
a short speech by an actor at the end of a play
What is an epilogue?
Each of the surface polygons that form a polyhedron.
What is the face?
classifies hurricanes according to wind speed, air pressure in the center, and potential for property damage.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale?
Asia’s three major religions
What are Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam ?
using words that imitate the sound they denote
What is an onomatopoeia?
a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
What is a simile?
the quantity that is to be divided
What is the dividend?
a storm near the equator with winds moving in a circle at speeds of up to 38 miles per hour
What is a tropical depression?
location of the Great Rift Valley
What is Africa?
An angle whose measure is greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees.
What is an acute angle?
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
What is alliteration?
A segment whose endpoints are points of a circle.
What is a chord?
used to assign a tornado a 'rating' based on estimated wind speeds and related damage
What is the EF (Enhanced Fujita Damage Intensity) Scale?
divides the earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
What is transpiration?