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This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
This number is the result when you multiply a number by itself.
What is a square number?
This is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This document begins with "We the People" and outlines the basic laws of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
The main character in a story is called this.
What is the protagonist?
A word that joins two independent clauses is called this.
What is a conjunction?
In the equation 3x + 5 = 20, x equals this number.
What is 5?
The three states of matter are solid, liquid, and this.
What is gas?
Ancient Egypt built these large triangular structures as tombs for their pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
This is the central idea or underlying meaning of a story.
What is the theme?
The words "who," "whom," "whose," "which," and "that" are examples of this type of pronoun.
What are relative pronouns?
This type of number can be written as a fraction or a decimal.
What is a rational number?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This economic system allows individuals and businesses to make most decisions about how to use resources.
What is capitalism?
When an author gives human qualities to non-human things, it's called this.
What is personification?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or to make a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
The formula for the area of a triangle is this.
What is ½ × base × height?
The movement of tectonic plates can cause this natural disaster.
What is an earthquake?
This period in European history, also known as the "Dark Ages," came after the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period)?
This point of view uses "I," "me," and "my" in storytelling.
What is first-person narration?
In the sentence "The dog chased the cat," "chased" is an example of this type of verb.
What is an action verb?
In statistics, this measure represents the middle value in a set of numbers.
What is the median?
This is the term for all the living and non-living things in an area that interact with each other.
What is an ecosystem?
This imaginary line runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and is used as the zero reference point for longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?