Science
A piece of land in the shape of a triangle or fan made by deposits of mud and sand at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Name the fraction that is greater than 1/2.
1/4
4/9
5/8
2/6
What is 5/8?
A figure of speech that directly compares two different things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The artistic process of gluing and assembling various materials to a flat surface.
What is collage?
The name of the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Any change that causes a new substance to be formed (ex. the roasting of a marshmallow).
What is a chemical change?
Johnny practiced running the mile-run 2 times yesterday. His times were 9.14 minutes and 11.23 minutes. What was the difference in his two runs?
What is 2.09 minutes?
The central figure of a story and is often referred to as the story's main character and hero.
What is a protagonist?
a large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard and metal strings, which are struck by hammers when the keys are pressed down.
What is a piano?
The name of the era when black artists, musicians and writers became a part of American culture.
Materials that do not conduct heat or electricity.
What is an insulator?
Find the number in the pattern below:
1, 3, 9, 27, __, 243.
What is 81?
F.A.N.B.O.Y.S
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What are coordinating conjunctions?
A dance form or dance that is matched to the rhythms and techniques of bluesy music, developed by African Americans in the early part of the 20th century.
What is Jazz Dance?
The name given to the Midwest farmlands that were destroyed in the 1930's due to over planting the same areas and drought.
A cell composed of a membrane, wall, cytoplasm, nucleus, & chloroplasts.
Tara is 25 years older than Randall. Randall is 15 years old. How old is Tara?
What is 40 years old?
A short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The particular point in a narrative play or story at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.
What is the climax?
The amendment that ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
a square diagram that is composed of a grid of usually four boxes and is used to calculate and depict all the combinations and frequencies of the different genotypes and phenotypes.
What is a Punnett Square?
Two lines that intersect with each other and form right angles.
What are perpendicular lines?
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (ex. it is raining cats and dogs).
What is an idiom?
A process whereby only one print is pulled from the printing plate.
What is monoprinting?
The U.S. was trying to stop the spread of this type of government during the Cold War.
What is Communism?