Life Science
The smallest unit of life that can function independently.
What is a cell?
The force of attraction that every object exerts on other objects.
What is gravity?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
A story that is based on true events and facts.
What is non-fiction?
The process by which plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into food.
What is photosynthesis?
These particles have a positive charge and attract negatively charged electrons.
What are protons?
The three branches of government are the Legislative, Judicial, and this one.
What is the Executive Branch?
This document was issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The main character in a play or story.
What is the protagonist?
The physical characteristics of an organism, such as hair color or height, determined by genetics.
What are traits?
This law states that matter is neither created nor destroyed during chemical reactions.
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
The power of the President to refuse to sign a bill into law.
What is a veto?
This era in the 1930s saw massive unemployment and the rise of "Hoovervilles".
What is the Great Depression?
Using clues from the text to make a logical conclusion about something not explicitly stated.
What is an inference?
A genetic change within a cell that can cause a disease or change an organism.
What is a mutation?
This type of rock is formed from compacted sediment, often near water, and contains fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
This clause in the 14th Amendment forbids states from denying any person equal protection under the law.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities for industrial jobs.
What is urbanization (or migration)?
A comparison of two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The "struggle" in an ecosystem where organisms compete for limited resources like food, water, and space.
What is competition?
This law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
The system that ensures no one branch of government becomes too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This event in 1991 signaled the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
The emotional effect or atmosphere an author creates for the reader.
What is mood?