Language Arts
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A number only divisible by one and itself
What is a prime number?
An object at rest tends to stay at rest; an object in motion stays in motion.
What is inertia (or Newton's First Law)?
The forced 1838 march of the Cherokee people from Georgia to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
While a simile uses "like" or "as," this more complex device uses a part of something to represent the whole, such as saying "all hands on deck" to mean the whole crew.
What is synecdoche? (pronounced si-nek-duh-kee)
Tired and energetic are examples of these.
What are antonyms?
If a car travels 120 miles in 2 hours, this is its unit rate in mph.
This basic unit of a chemical element consists of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
What is a atom?
The three branches of the U.S. government: Legislative, Executive, and this one.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Represented by the Greek letter ϕ, this mathematical ratio is found in nature, like a nautilus shell.
What is the Golden Ratio?" (Also accepted: "What is the Divine Proportion?")
A word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning.
What is a homophone?
This mathematical property states that the order of numbers doesn't change the sum or product.
What is the commutative property?
The amount of mass in a given volume of a substance.
What is density?
The branch of government responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Often called the "powerhouse" of the cell, these organelles are responsible for creating energy through a process called cellular respiration.
What are mitochondria?
The Latin root "struct" means this.
What is to build? (e.g., structure, construct)
The answer to 3/4÷1/2.
What is 1.5?
When viewing an object through a microscope or telescope, this 'M' word refers to the degree of enlargement.
What is magnification?
The 1781 battle where the British surrendered, ending the war.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The 13 original states.
What are Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island?
A reference to a well-known person, place, or event from literature or history.
What is an allusion?
The Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of 36 and 54.
What is 18?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This 3-word economic term refers to the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period.
What is Gross Domestic Product?(or GDP)
In the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain, "NFT" stands for this three-word term.
What is a Non-Fungible Token?