Applied Science
Sophisticated Vocabulary
World Geography
Moments in History
Numbers and Reasoning
200

This force explains why a rolling ball eventually stops on flat ground.

What is friction?

200

To clearly explain or make understandable.

What is clarify?

200

This country has the longest coastline in the world.

What is Canada?

200

This document formally ended British rule over the American colonies.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

This number is both even and prime.

What is 2?

400

This type of energy is stored in a stretched rubber band.

What is potential energy?

400

A temporary stop or break in action.

What is a pause?

400

This mountain range separates Europe and Asia.

What are the Ural Mountains?

400

This invention helped spread information quickly in the 15th century.

What is the printing press?

400

The value of a triangle’s interior angles always equals this.

What is 180 degrees?

600

Sound travels faster through this state of matter than through air.

What is a solid?

600

To officially cancel or end something.

What is abolish?

600

This capital city sits on the River Thames.

What is London?

600

This empire was ruled by Julius Caesar before becoming an empire.

What is the Roman Republic?

600

This term describes a number divisible only by 1 and itself.

What is a prime number?

800

This organelle is responsible for energy production in cells.

What is the mitochondrion?

800

Something that exists only in theory, not in reality.

What is hypothetical?

800

This desert is the largest hot desert on Earth.

What is the Sahara?

800

This war followed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

What is World War I?

800

The square root of 144 equals this number.

What is 12?

1000

This law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

What is Newton’s Third Law?

1000

To examine carefully for accuracy or truth.

What is scrutinize?

1000

This canal drastically shortened sea travel between Europe and Asia.

What is the Suez Canal?

1000

This agreement officially ended World War I.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

1000

This mathematical constant begins 3.14

What is pi?

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