U.S. Government
The legislative branch includes the House of Representatives and this....
What is the Senate?
Name one of the first English colonies (later states) in North America.
What is Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, etc.?
The 0 degree line of longitude is also called...
What is the Prime Meridian?
Which body system is primarily responsible for breaking down and obtaining nutrients for the food we eat?
What is the digestive system?
Which of these is not an element?
a. aluminum
b. water
c. oxygen
d. gold
What is water? (compound)
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution are better known as what?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Which two nations were mainly involved in the Cold War?
The Soviet Union and the United States
Which line splits the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres?
What is the Equator?
What type of organism is usually one-celled and prokaryotic?
What is bacteria?
This type of friction is demonstrated by your car wheels moving down the road.
a. rolling
b. static
c. fluid
What is rolling friction?
True or False? One way that the judicial Branch can "check" or control the executive branch is by declaring a law unconstitutional.
Name two of the states that seceded from the Union in the Civil War.
What is Virginia, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida?
This map feature shows how distances are represented on a map. (Ex: 1 in. = 50 mi.)
What is the map scale?
Which of these traits is NOT a characteristic of a reptile?
a. cold-blooded
b. invertebrate
c. has lungs
c. lays eggs
What is invertebrate?
Name two forms of renewable energy.
What are wind, solar, water?
This branch of government has the power to make treaties with other countries.
What is the executive branch?
Name two of the United States' allies during World War II.
What are Gr. Britain, France, Soviet Union, Canada?
Which of these demographic indicators might suggest how good/bad women's health care is in a region?
a. population density
b. infant mortality rate
c. birth rate
What is b, infant mortality rate?
Which of these plant structures is considered the female part of the flower?
a. anther
b. stamen
c. pistil
d. xylem
What is the pistil?
Name two examples of simple machines.
What are inclined plan, pulley, lever, wheel and axle, wedge, etc?
This Article (section) of the Constitution describes how it can be amended.
a. Article four
b. Article three
c. Article five
What is Article V?
Name one of the two main events that led the United States to enter World War I.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania or the Zimmerman telegram (Germany tried to make an alliance with Mexico)? (ok if you don't remember the exact names)
What type of economy is mainly controlled by the businesses and consumers?
a. Market
b. Mixed
c. Traditional
What is a market economy?
True or false? If one parent has two dominant alleles for a trait (for example, brown eyes), 100% of the offspring will have this physical trait.
What is TRUE? This parent's dominant alleles will mask any recessive alleles that the other parent might have.
Sodium chloride, a compound in which sodium loses an electron and chlorine gains one, is held together by what kind of chemical bond?
What is an ionic bond?