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Literacy
Science
10th Grade
100

The reason the Civil War was started.

What is seceding from the country? What is slavery? (either one of these are valid answers)

100

A word that means inspiring horror or repulsion.

What is gruesome?

100

The author of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Who was Mark Twain?

100

An educated guess you make before conducting an experiment.

What is a hypothesis?

100

The author of a book about a dystopian society where 'Big Brother' watches over everyone.

Who is George Orwell?

200

The city where a famous massacre took place before the American Revolution.

Where is Boston, Massachusetts?

200

A word that means work assigned that is done on your own time.

What is asynchronous?

200

The proper way to say my friends and I went to the mall/my friends and me went to the mall.

What is 'my friends and I went to the mall'?

200

Jupiter and Saturn are these, along with two others.

What are gas giants?

200

A type of function written in the form y=a(b)^x.

What is an exponential function?

300

Three famous Mesoamerican empires (pre-colonialism).

What are Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans?

300

A word that means to enclose in or as if in a capsule.

What is encapsulate?

300

The prisoner referred to in The Prisoner of Azkaban.

Who was Sirius Black?

300

States of Matter: The sun is _____, the ground is _____, the clouds are _____, and the ocean is _______.

What are plasma (sun), solid (ground), gas (clouds), and liquid (ocean)?

300

A basketball player for the Cavaliers who has recently spoken up a lot about anxiety and mental health, especially for boys.

Who is Kevin Love?

400

The month that the Watergate Hotel was first robbed.

When is May?

400

A word that means when a solid turns directly into a gas.

What is sublimation?

400

The 5 paragraphs in a 5 paragraph persuasive essay.

What is introduction, three reasons, and conclusion?

400

The date of the autumn equinox.

What is September 22-23?

400

The creator of an atomic model that shows the statistical likelihood of an electron to be in any given place using clouds, also known for his experiments with a cat and a box.

Who is Erwin Schrödinger?

500

The inventors of paper towels; the company still exists today as a paper towel and toilet paper company.

What is Scott?

500

A word that means the passing on of stories or information by word of mouth rather than writing.

What is oral tradition?

500

The first name of the authors of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers' Grimm.

Who where Jacob and Wilhelm?

500

The type of particles plasma is made out of.

What are broken particles?

500

The letters representing the four levels of atomic orbitals within the electron clouds, in order.

What are s, p, d, and f?

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