8th Grade Science
This is the energy in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the part of speech for a word that describes a noun, such as “quick” or “blue.”
What is an adjective?
What is the square root of 144?
What is 12?
This is a symbol used to represent an unknown number in an expression or equation.
What is a variable?
This is how many kids Mrs. Shubeck has.
What is two?
This is the distance between one wave crest and the next.
What is wavelength?
This term refers to the central message or lesson an author wants the reader to understand in a story or passage.
What is theme?
Solve 2x-8=10
x=9
This is the rule that tells you to multiply before adding or subtracting in an expression.
What is order of operations?
There are two foods that Mrs. Shubeck does not like. Name one.
What is honey or pizza?
This process explains how organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
This is the process of figuring out a word’s meaning using surrounding text.
What are context clues?
The value of b in: 32 + b2 = 52
What is 4?
This is a property that says you multiply the number outside parentheses by each term inside.
What is the distributive property?
Mrs. Shubeck is this tall.
What is 5'4'"?
This is the force that pulls objects toward Earth.
What is gravity?
This includes exact words, numbers, or facts taken directly from a text to support an argument.
What is textual evidence?
In the equation, y= -3x + 6, this is the y-intercept
What is 6?
This is the steepness of a line on a graph.
What is slope?
Mrs. Shubeck's favorite movie.
X-rays, UV rays, Gamma rays, and visible light are all part of this.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
This refers to a method an author uses to convince a reader, such as appealing to emotion, logic, or credibility.
What is a persuasive technique?
When you transform an object left/right and/or up/down, while it maintains the same shape and direction.
What is a translation?
This is a way to write a linear equation that clearly shows the slope and the y-intercept.
y=mx+b
What is slope-intercept form?
Mrs. Shubeck's favorite band.
What is Metallica?