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In Of Mice and Men, Lenny carries a rubber one of these creatures, since he kept killing the real ones.
Mouse
This is the value of x in the expression x^2 = 36
6
If you're planning some plant genetics, you must account for these alleles, which sway the outcome more than the recessive ones.
Dominant
The original American flag had this many stars - one for each of the original colonies.
13
An early 2000's band took the name of this archduke, whose assassination was the catalyst for World War I in Europe.
William Shakespeare had a knack for combining comedies with this other, seemingly incompatible type of play.
Tragedy
The equation y - 2 = 2(x - 5) is in this form.
Point-slope
A typical hydrogen atom has this many electrons - don't overthink it.
1
The Continental Congress adopted this document in 1776, officially telling Britain to take its hands off the American colonies.
The Declaration of Independence
Hitting a guitar string with your finger after the string is plucked is known as this technique.
Hammer-on
"The world is a vampire" is an example of this literary device; don't confuse it for the one that uses like or as.
Metaphor
The expression 10/0 doesn't return a numerical value but is instead referred to with this term.
Undefined
In physics, this force is responsible for a lot of the resistance to an object's motion.
Friction
The San Francisco 49ers' name is a reference to this big-time event in California history.
The Gold Rush
Born in 1815, this woman is considered to be the first computer programmer - even though the computer she wrote programs for was never built.
Ada Lovelace
A stickler for grammar will tell you that "10 items or less" should instead end with this word, which is more often used when referring to countable quantities.
Fewer
Exponential and logarithmic equations are related through this type of mathematical relationship.
They are inverses
Cows are classified as these types of animals that don't ever snack on meat.
Herbivores
Heiroglyphs
This special formula can help you find the roots of an equation without having to FOIL or factor it.
The quadratic equation
William Carlos Williams used only 16 words in his famous poem about this type of gardening tool.
Red wheelbarrow
The Cartesian coordinate plane
Internal combustion engines waste about 65% of the energy they produce as this type of energy.
Thermal
The Lava Beds National Monument was the site of one of the first battles of this war - the only major Native American war fought in California.
The Modoc War
Commonly misinterpreted as a type of energy, this physical unit represents the transfer of thermal energy.
Heat