It's All About That Math
This Day in History
Punctuation Potpourri
Good Grammar
Science Words
100
In Kingsport School, 46% of students are female. If the total number of students is 1250, then this is the number of male students are attending this high school.
675
100
July 28, 1914
start of WWI
100
This end punctuation mark is used to indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis.
exclamation mark (or point)
100
Who or That?
My brother is the one _____ solved the mystery.
who
100
Any change in the speed or direction of motion of an object
acceleration
200
Erin’s incomes and expenditures for the first five months of the year 2012 are given in the table below:
These two months show her savings the highest.
March and May
200
May 8, 1945
WWII ended
200
These are used to inform a reader either of something that was spoken or something that is being directly copied from another work.
Quotation marks
200
Than or then?
Our cousins are taller _____ us.
than
200
Substance with a pH less than 7
acid
300
Each side of the figure below is 12 in. long. What is the area of this shape?
5 ft.2
300
November 22, 1963
President Kennedy assassinated
300
This type of punctuation is commonly used in listing several things in a sentence.
comma
300
Less or fewer?
If _____ people used disposable water bottles, there would not be so much plastic in landfills.
fewer
300
A change in which atoms of one or more substances form new substances with different chemical and physical properties
chemical reaction
400
The equivalent to (7x + 3y)(8x + 5y).
56x² + 59xy + 15y²
400
April 18, 1775
Paul Revere's ride
400
This sign is used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are linked in the grammar of a sentence as in pick-me-up.
hyphen
400
Farther or further?
The island looked _____ away than ever.
farther
400
Protein that speeds up chemical reaction in cells
enzyme
500
This person counted to infinity TWICE.
Chuck Norris
500
December 7, 1941
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
500
Three dots (...) that indicate something was omitted from quoted text or the writer trailed off.
Ellipsis
500
Compliments or complements
Dara’s background in UX design _____ my front-end development experience.
complements
500
The variable which is measured in an experiment.
dependent variable