ELA
An extreme exaggeration in a piece of literature.
Who is hyperbole?
The rectangular floor of a classroom is 36 ft in length & 32 ft wide. A scale drawing of the floor has a length of 9 in. What is the width of the floor in the scale drawing.
What is 8 inches?
Number of bones in the human body.
What is 206?
This form of government (in which citizens govern themselves) was born in the Greek city-state of Athens?
What is democracy?
You have two U.S. whose total value is $0.30. One of them is NOT a nickle.
What are the two coins?
One NICKLE and one QUARTER.
This author of Brown Girl Dreaming wrote about growing up during the Civil Rights movement in America.
Who is Jacqueline Woodson?
A grocery store sells a bag of 4 oranges for $1.04.
How much would it cost for 11 oranges?
$2.86
This dude discovered the rules of heredity?
Who is Mendel?
This form of power/govt. used in the Middle Ages consisted of Kings/Queens having the most power, followed by nobles, knight, and then peasants and serfs.
What is feudalism?
Name the three sub-regions of Latin America.
What are Middle America, the Caribbean and South America?
The message the author intends for a piece of writing.
What is "theme"?
What is the value of the following expression:
(-1/2) divided by (3/5)
- 5/6
The process where nitrogen is excreted as waste from organisms and picked up as nutrients by plants.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
This era of the Middle Ages grew out of the tragedy of the Bubonic Plague & was known as a "rebirth of learning."
What is the renaissance/European Renaissance?
A comparison of two un-like things, not using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Giving human-like characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
What is the solution to the equation below?
6(x+12)=24
x = -8
Humans have this many chromosomes in their body cells?
What is 46?
This early Latin American civilization was the first to develop the concept of “zero.”
Who are the Maya?
This body system contains the esophagus, small intestine and the gall bladder.
What is the digestive system?
Person vs. Nature, Person vs. Person, and Person vs. Society are all examples of….
What is external conflict?
The diameter of a circle is 14 inches.
What is the area of half of the circle?
Write answer as a decimal to nearest hundreth
About 76.92 inches2 OR 76.93 inches2
If you cross a Pp Purple flower with another Pp Purple flower, what are the chances they will have a white flower offspring?
What is 25%?
Name 2 of the 3 physical features of Ancient Greece that led to isolation and the formation of city-states.
What are mountains, islands or peninsulas?
What type of geographic feature defines the Caribbean? Be specific and use the correct geographic term.
What is an archipelago?