Math
the subset of mathematics in which letters and other general symbols are used to represent numbers and quantities
What is Algebra?
When two or more figures are the same exact size and same exact shape
What is congruent?
This prefix means "before"
What is "pre-"?
The belief that the US should own all the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The layer of gas surrounding the Earth
What is Atmosphere?
All three interior angles of a triangle add up to this number
What is 180 degrees?
Lines in that never intersect or cross. They are always the same distance apart.
What are parallel lines?
This is the decade in which the Outsiders was set
What are the 1960s?
The first 10 amendments of the constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The process by which water evaporates into the atmosphere, condenses and falls back to the earth by precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
The formula that proves that a triangle is a right triangle
What is Pythagorean Theorem?
Moving a figure either by Translation, Reflection, Rotation, or Dilation
What are Transformations?
The person that said "Stay gold, Ponyboy"
Who is Johnny Cade?
The practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not it will allow slavery. (Power of the people)
What is popular sovereignty?
Energy in motion
What is Kinetic Energy?
The angles opposite eachother when two lines cross. They are always equal in measure.
What are vertical angles?
When you write an equation in the format y=mx+b
What is slope-intercept form?
The character that marries Romeo and Juliet in a secret ceremony
Who is Friar Lawrence?
The years the Civil War was fought
What is 1861 - 1865?
the variable you manipulate, control, or vary in an experimental study to explore its effects
What is an Independent Variable?
*Ask Ms. Long for a picture*
What is a parabola?
When two ratios (or fractions) are equal
What is proportional?
The use of sensory language that forms a mental image for the reader or listener
What is Imagery?
A United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What is a Biome?