The punctuation mark used at the end of a declarative sentence
What is the period
100
Often stated in the first sentence, the most important information of a paragraph or reading passage.
What is the main idea
100
A group of body organs or structures that together perform one or more vital functions including but not limited to digestion, circulation, and reproduction
What is a body system
100
The document that declares the 13 original colonies as independent states from the rule of the British
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
The formula to determine the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle
What is a^2+b^2=c^2
200
The part of speech used to modify a noun (person, place, or thing)
What is an adjective
200
The environment in which a story or event takes place which can include specific information about time and place, or can simply be descriptive (i.e. a lonely farmhouse on a dark night)
What is the setting
200
A biological community of interacting organisms (plants and animals) and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem
200
The war centered in Europe that was fought between July 1914 and November 1918
What is World War I
200
The name for the 'letter' used in an algebraic expression to represent an unknown number
What is a variable
300
The punctuation mark used to separate a series of 3 or more items
What is the comma
300
A passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like
What is an excerpt
300
The process by which green plants use sunlight and chlorophyll to change carbon dioxide and water into food
What is photosynthesis
300
The branches of the U S government
What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
300
The measure of the area of the base times the height of a rectangular solid
What is volume
400
The conjunctions used to combine similar simple sentences, easily remembered using the acronym FANBOYS
What are: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
400
Often used in poetry, a form of language such as simile, metaphor, and personification which should not be taken literally
What is figurative language
400
The motion of electric charge resulting in attractive or repulsive forces between objects
What is magnetism
(a magnet is acceptable)
400
The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth
What is economics
400
The statistical terms used to find the most common number, the middle number, and the average of a set of numerical data.
What are mode, median, and mean
500
The punctuation mark used in complex sentences with conjunctions such as therefore and however.
What is the semi-colon
500
Words or phrases that hint at what an unknown word means when reading passages
What are context clues
500
The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, which determines the chemical properties of an element and its place in the periodic table
What is the atomic number
500
The seven continents on the globe
What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
500
The term for the trigonometry function in a right triangle that is equal to the ratio of the opposite side a given angle to the hypotenuse