Physical Science
This force is defined as the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.
What is friction?
This imaginary line of longitude is located at 0° and passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This green pigment allows plants to absorb energy from light during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
While the "Protagonist" is the main character , this is the formal literary term for the character, force or institution that stands in opposition to them.
What is the Antagonist?
In the visible light spectrum, this color has the longest wavelength.
What is red?
This is the only continent that covers all four hemispheres (North, South, East and West).
What is Africa?
Often called the "Cradle of Civilization," this historical region is located between the Tigres and Euphrates river systems.
What is Mesopotamia?
What is the "powerhouse" of the cell called?
What is the mitochondria?
This specific device involves the use of words that mimic the natural sounds of a thing, such as "gurgle," "clap," or "whisper."
What is Onomatopoeia?
This is the term for the temperature at which a solid turns into a liquid.
What is melting point?
Excluding Australia (which is a continent), this is the world's largest island.
What is Greenland?
This Italian city-state is considered the "Birthplace of the Renaissance" and was home to the powerful Medici family.
What is Florence?
What is the largest organ in the human body?
What is the skin?
This literary device involves repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is Alliteration?
Often represented by the letter "I" in electrical formulas, this term measures the flow of electric charge.
What is current?
Located in the western Pacific Ocean, this crescent-shaped canyon is the deepest part of the world's oceans, reaching a depth of nearly 7 miles.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The shortest-serving U.S. President in history; he died of pneumonia just 31 days after taking office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
Also known as the "master gland," this pea-sized gland at the base of the brain controls growth and development.
What is the pituitary gland?
The 1868 novel, "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott, centers its story on four sisters: Jo, Beth, Amy and _______?
Who is Meg?
Newton's First Law of Motion states that an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon an outside force. This tendency to resist changes in motion is known by this term.
What is inertia?
This mountain range separates the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) from the rest of Europe (France).
What are the Pyrenees?
Signed by King John of England in 1215, this document was one of the first to limit the power of the king and establish the principle that everyone is subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
In ecology, this specific type of symbiotic relationship occurs when one species benefits while the other one is neither helped nor harmed (e.g., barnacles on a whale).
What is commensalism?
There are three main types of this literary device: Verbal, Situational, and this third type, which occurs when the audience or reader knows crucial information that the characters in the story do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?