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The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
In coordinate geometry, this is the term given to the point (0,0), where the x-axis and y-axis intersect.
What is the origin?
This literary term describes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
Signed in 1776, this document served as a break up letter with Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
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This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell" because it generates ATP through cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondria?
This famous theorum states that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides (a2+b2=c2).
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this 1925 classic novel chronicles the tragic obsession of a mysterious millionaire with the wealthy Daisy Buchanan on Long Island.
What is The Great Gatsby?
Triggered by the 1929 stock market crash, this decade-long economic downturn was the longest and most severe in US history.
What is the Great Depression?
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Which specific category of rocks forms directly from the cooling and crystallization of molten rock (magma or lava)?
What is igneous rocks?
This trigonometric function is defined in a right triangle as the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
What is the cosine?
In drama or fiction, this type of speech occurs when a character speaks their innermost thoughts out loud to themselves while along on stage, famously used by Shakespeare's Hamlet.
What is a soliloquy?
Occurring during the Cold War in October 1962, this 13-day political and military standoff brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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This mechanism of evolution, proposed by Charles Darwin, states that organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
In algebra, this value under the radical sign in the quadratic formula--b2-4ac--is used to find the number and type of roots of a quadratic equation.
What is the discriminant?
This literary term describes an author's choice of words, which heavily influences the tone, clarity, and style of a piece of writing.
What is diction?
This phrase encouraging Americans to move west was included in a quote by John Sullivan claiming it was a God-given right to overtake the whole continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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In which layer of Earth's atmosphere does virtually all weather (clouds, rain, storms) take place?
What is the troposphere?
What is 108/12?
What is 9?
This Greek tragedy by Sophocles tells the story of a tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother.
What is Oedipus Rex.
This 1803 landmark Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review in the United States, giving courts the power to strike down unconstitutional laws.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
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