Science
When an airplane flies, its engines produce thrust to overcome this rearward force caused by air resistance.
What is drag?
This type of word modifies or describes a noun, such as "vibrant," "ancient," or "spacious."
What is an adjective?
This level of government in Canada is headed by the Prime Minister and handles national responsibilities like the military, currency, and citizenship.
What is the federal government?
In sports like soccer or hockey, achieving this means a single player has scored three goals in a single game.
What is a hat-trick?
Capable of true, sustained flight, this is the only mammal on Earth that possesses wings.
What is a bat?
This major body system is made up of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and intestines, working together to break down food for energy.
What is the digestive system?
This term refers to a word that means the exact opposite of another word, like "generous" and "selfish."
What is an antonym?
This level of government is responsible for local services like garbage collection, snow removal, public transit, and city parks.
What is the municipal government?
This is the term used in tennis when the score is tied at 40-40, meaning a player must win two consecutive points to win the game.
What is deuce?
If you mix the primary colors red and blue together, you will create this secondary color.
What is purple (or violet)?
Unlike a physical change like melting ice, this type of change creates an entirely new substance that cannot easily be reversed, like wood turning into ash.
What is a chemical change?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things, such as "the wind howled in the night", is this literary device.
What is personification?
This ancient European civilization is widely credited with creating the earliest concept of democracy in cities like Athens.
What is Ancient Greece?
In track and field, this specific event requires an athlete to sprint down a runway, leap, and land in a sandpit.
What is the long jump?
In the Roman numeral system, this single letter represents the number 50.
What is L?
In this specific type of electrical circuit, there is only one single path for the current to flow; if one light bulb burns out, the entire circuit is broken.
What is a series circuit?
Words like "buzz," "hiss," and "clank" that mimic the actual sound they describe are examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
Completed in 1885, this massive transportation project connected Canada from coast to coast but relied heavily on the dangerous, low-paid labor of thousands of Chinese immigrants.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)?What is the legislative branch?
In American football, this is the 10-yard wide scoring area located at both ends of the field.
What is the end zone?
This natural light display, also known as the Northern Lights, occurs when charged particles from the sun collide with Earth's atmosphere.
What is the Aurora Borealis?
When classifying the biodiversity of the animal kingdom, creatures like insects, spiders, and crabs are placed in this massive category because they lack a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
This specific part of speech is used to connect words, phrases, or clauses together, such as "although," "because," or "yet."
What is a conjunction?
Added to Canada's Constitution in 1982, this official document protects the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Canadians, such as freedom of speech and the right to vote.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Held primarily in July, this famous multi-stage cycling race covers thousands of kilometers and finishes on the Champs-Élysées.
What is the Tour de France?
This is the standard scientific unit used to measure the intensity or loudness of a sound.
What is a decibel?