History Highlights
This Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, formally abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words, like "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
This term describes a relationship where both species benefit, such as bees pollinating flowers while receiving nectar.
What is mutualism?
n the expression $5x + 3$, this is the name given to the number $5$ because it is being multiplied by a variable.
What is a coefficient?
In their 2002 regular-season debut, the Texans shocked the NFL by defeating this intrastate rival 19–10.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys
Established in 1865, this government agency was intended to aid distressed freedmen and white refugees with food, clothing, and education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This literary device provides hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
In a food web, these organisms occupy the very first trophic level because they produce their own energy from sunlight.
What are producers (or autotrophs)?
This is the value of the expression 2(x + 4) when x=6.
What is 20?
This wide receiver, the first player inducted into the Texans Ring of Honor, holds the franchise record for career receiving yards with 13,955
Who is Andre Johnson?
This term referred to Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often viewed by locals as opportunistic outsiders.
What are Carpetbaggers?
This type of narrator is "all-knowing" and can describe the thoughts and feelings of every character.
What is omniscient (or third-person omniscient)?
This term describes an ecosystem's ability to return to its original state after a major disturbance, such as a fire or flood.
What is resilience?
This is the value of w in the equation 3w-7=11
What is 6?
In 2023, this former Texans linebacker and 2-time Pro Bowler returned to Houston to become the franchise's sixth full-time head coach.
Who is DeMeco Ryans?
This group of Congressmen, led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, wanted to harshly punish the South and ensure full rights for freed slaves.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This is a contrast between expectation and reality, specifically when the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is situational irony?
Fungi and bacteria play this vital role in ecosystem stability by breaking down dead organic matter and returning nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
This property is used to rewrite the expression 5(2x+3) as 10x+15
What is the distributive property?
This defensive end is the only player in NFL history to record two separate seasons with 20 or more sacks, both achieved while playing for Houston.
Who is J.J. Watt?
Reconstruction effectively ended with this informal agreement that settled the 1876 election and led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This is the placement of two often contradictory things side-by-side to highlight their differences or create a new meaning.
What is juxtaposition?
This concept describes how a change at the top of a food chain (like the removal of a top predator) causes a series of reciprocal changes in the populations of lower trophic levels.
What is a trophic cascade?
An equation like x + 5 = x + 5 is said to have this many solutions
What is infinitely many solutions
Before settling on "Texans," the team narrowed its name search to five finalists, including these two celestial and equine options.
What are the Apollos and the Stallions?