Science
The process plants use to turn sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.
Photosynthesis
A figure of speech that directly compares two things using "like" or "as."
Simile
The Portuguese explorer leading a Spanish expedition who arrived in the Philippines in 1521 and was killed at the Battle of Mactan.
Ferdinand Magellan
A statement or argument that seems contradictory or impossible, but may actually be true upon closer examination.
Paradox
Painted in the early 1500s by Leonardo da Vinci, this famous portrait housed in the Louvre is famous for her enigmatic smile.
Mona Lisa
This layer of Earth's atmosphere absorbs most of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
Ozone Layer
Words that sound the same when pronounced but have different meanings and spellings, such as "there," "their," and "they're."
Homophones
Founded by Andrés Bonifacio in 1892, this secret society sought independence from Spanish colonial rule through revolution.
Katipunan or KKK
This common logical fallacy occurs when someone attacks their opponent's character or personal traits instead of addressing their argument.
Ad hominem attack
This Dutch Post-Impressionist painter created The Starry Night while staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Vincent van Gogh
The boundary surrounding a black hole beyond which no light or matter can escape is known by this term.
Event Horizon
The attribution of human characteristics or emotions to non-human objects, animals, or ideas.
Personification
On June 12, 1898, Philippine independence from Spain was officially proclaimed in this Cavite town.
Kawit
This foundational rule of formal logic states that a proposition cannot be both true and false at the same time in the same respect.
Law of Non-Contradiction
Claude Monet's 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise, depicting the port of Le Havre, gave its name to this 19th-century art movement.
Impressionism
This subatomic particle, discovered in 1932 by James Chadwick, has no electric charge.
Neutron
The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words, as in "Peter Piper picked a peck."
Alliteration
Serving as the first President of the Philippines, he led forces against both Spain and later the United States during the Philippine-American War.
Emilio Aguinaldo
A classic form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion, such as "All humans are mortal; Socrates is human; therefore Socrates is mortal."
Syllogism
This Spanish artist spent four years decorating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel between 1508 and 1512 with scenes from the Book of Genesis.
Michelangelo
What is Newton's Three Laws of Motion?
Law of Inertia, Law of Acceleration and Law of Action and Reaction
A literary technique where the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs, or when words convey a meaning opposite to their literal sense.
Irony
The 1872 uprising of Filipino military personnel and workers that served as the pretext for the execution of the martyr priests Gomburza.
Cavite Mutiny
Named after a 14th-century English philosopher, this problem-solving principle states that the simplest explanation with the fewest assumptions is usually the correct one.
Occam's Razor
This Italian Renaissance painting technique, whose name literally translates to "light-dark," uses strong contrasts between light and shadow to achieve a three-dimensional volume in modeling three-dimensional objects.
Chiaroscuro