History
the judicial, executive, and legislative
What are the three branches of government?
This type of triangle has two sides that are equal in length
What is an isosceles triangle?
this scientist is credited with the laws of motion
Who is Newton?
This type of poem is written with the first line having 5 syllables, the second having 7, and the third having 5 again.
What is a haiku?
This river is the longest river in the world
What is the nile river?
This person would be next in line for presidency if anything happened to the vice president
Who is the speaker of the house?
this is a "formula" you would use to find the sin of an angle
What is opposite/hypotenuse?
this is the symbol for the element silver on the periodic table
What is Ag?
this poetry device is used when the same consonant sound occurs at the beginning of words in a sequence. an example of this would be "she sells sea shells by the seashore"
what is alliteration?
this US state is the only state that's name is one syllable
what is maine?
this disease almost killed a third of europe's population in the 1300's.
What is the bubonic plague?
This is the name for a U shaped curve on a graph
What is a parabola?
This is the basic unit of life in all living things
What is a cell?
The road not taken is a poem written by this author
Who is Robert Frost?
This is the number of rings on the olympic flag
What is 5?
Sparta was a city in this ancient country
What is greece?
(x – x1)² + (y – y1)²= r²
What is the equation of a circle?
The temporal lobe is located in this part of the body
What is the brain?
In literature, this is the indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing?
"the meaningless repition of another person's spoken word" is the definition of this word
what is echolalia?
this is the name of the first permanent english colony
what is jamestown?
in trigonometry, these are equalities that involve trigonometric functions and are true for every value of the occurring variables for which both sides of the equality are defined
what are trig identities?
This is the name for group 1 on the periodic table
What is alkali metals?
"we were lost in a sea of nameless faces" is an example of this kind of literary technique
What is a metaphor?
this american president appears on the one dollar bill
who is george washington