PLOT
EARTH HISTORY
COMPLETE SENTENCES
CONFLICT
RANDOM
100

The first thing that happens in a plot structure. 

EXPOSITION

100

Earth is _____________ billion years old.

4.5

100

Every sentence begins with a _______ letter.

CAPITAL, or UPPERCASE

100

Conflict in which a character fights things/machines humans have created.

CHARACTER VS. TECHNOLOGY

100

The city in the United States with the most people.

NEW YORK CITY

200

The point of maximum tension before there is a release to the falling action.

CLIMAX

200

One of the first complex organisms to live on Earth was the ___________.

TRILOBITE

200

Every sentence must end with a _______________.

PUNCTUATION MARK

(period, exclamation mark (!), or question mark (?))

200

Conflict in which a character struggles against forces in the environment.

CHARACTER VS. NATURE

200

How wide was the asteroid that collided with Earth 65 million years ago at 50,000 miles per hour?

6 Miles

300

The central struggle that motivates the character.

CONFLICT.

300

The event that wiped out all non-flying dinosaur life.

ASTEROID IMPACT
300

Every sentence must have a _____________, or person, place, thing, quality, or idea that the sentence is about.

SUBJECT

300

Conflict in which a character battles things that are not real, that cannot happen or aren't understood, like ghosts or witches or spirits.

CHARACTER VS. SUPERNATURAL

300

How many types of character conflict are there in literature and other stories?

Seven (7)

400

The final part of a plot structure that closes the conflict.

RESOLUTION

400

Place in Africa that contained the oldest evidence of human beings.

The _________________ Gorge

OLDUVAI GORGE

400

Every complete sentence must make _________.

SENSE

400

Conflict in which a character is battling himself, or herself, inside.

CHARACTER VS. SELF

400

The name of a type of story that explains where, and how, things began.

ORIGIN STORY

500

One of the three things the audience learns during a plot's EXPOSITION. 

1. SETTING, or

2. CHARACTERS, or

3. TIME PERIOD

500

The testing method used to find out how old the Earth is.

RADIOMETRIC

500

Every sentence must have a __________, that either shows the action or connects the subject to the action of a sentence.

VERB

500

Conflict in which a character has to battle forces created by whoever is ruling or making the rules in order to change the world.

CHARACTER VERSUS SOCIETY

500

Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and the Resolution are used to diagram a story's _____________.

PLOT

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