Middle School Science
This branch of science is dedicated to studying how traits are inherited by offspring.
What is genetics?
In 1849 some people were swept up in the excitement of what is called The Gold Rush. This happened in what state
California
This is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
3.14... is this number that we use to compute circle area and circumference.
What is Pi?
These colors are created by mixing two primary colors. Examples include green, orange, and purple.
What are secondary colors?
What type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as?
Metaphor
The three particles that make up an atom.
What are protons, electrons, and neutrons?
This leader of Indian resistance led his followers in non-violent resistance that led to the independence of India. He led the 1930 Salt March.
Who is Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi?
This is a word that makes the sound of the sound it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
How to express 5 x 5 using exponents?
52
The spaces on the treble clef form this word.
What is Face?
The literary term used to describe where a story takes place?
What is setting
What is the process by which plants make their own food?
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
The Constitutional Convention was held in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
This country was part of the Axis Powers. (Name at least one)
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
What is 34% as a decimal?
0.34
These are created by adding gray to a color, which softens the original hue.
What are tones?
The literary device where an author gives clues as to what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This element has the chemical symbol of NA.
What is sodium?
Who was the first dictator of Rome--and was murdered during the "Ides of March"
Julius Caesar
This is the least common multiple of 6, 8, and 12.
What is 24?
What is the term for all negative and positive whole numbers?
Integers
This composer created the 9th Symphony performed by the ASMS Band at the June concert
Who is Antonin Dvorak?
In this reading skill, you use clues and facts from the text and your background knowledge to make an educated guess. You fill in the parts of the text that are unsaid, but you know they are true based on the facts from the text.
What is inference?
Name the planets of our solar system IN ORDER.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The unsuccessful Soviet blockade of this city marked an early victory for the US during the Cold War.
What is Berlin?
This is the sum of a triangle's interior angles.
What is 180°?
This is the term used for the distance around a circle.
What is circumference?
These are created by adding black to a color, resulting in darker versions of the original hue.
What are shades?
The parts of the plot diagram in order.
What is: Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
Inciting incident is optional.
This type of rock is formed from the cooling and solidification of molten rock.
What is igneous?
Passed in 1919, this amendment prevented the sale of alcoholic beverages.
What is The 18th Amendment?
This font style and size is expected in an MLA paper.
What is Times New Roman 12 point?
How much would the tip be if you tipped 20% on a bill that was 50 Dollars?
10
Put these tempo markings in order from slowest to fastest: allegro, adagio, andante, lento, presto.
lento, adagio, andante, allegro, presto
This occurs when words within the line of poetry rhyme,
What is internal rhyme?
When a new substance is formed with different properties unlike the original substance it is called this type of change.
What is chemical change?
This tribe of Indians faced the death of about 4,000 members when forced to move in what is called "The Trail of Tears."
What is the Cherokee?
This part of speech modifies or qualifies an adjective, adverb, or verb.
What is an adverb?
This is the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder.
What is: V = πr^2h
This type of color scheme uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, such as blue, blue-green, and green.
What are analogous colors?
This poem from "The Outsiders" that Ponyboy remembers learning.
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay?"