Vocabulary
Read the paragraph and select the word that means very noisy and lively.
For robotics competition, teams spend weeks designing their robots and programming them to do battle against competitors' robots. The resulting robot games are often boisterous. Watching their creations perform against the others, the human competitors don't hold back from whooping and cheering.
What is boisterous?
What is the difference between a central idea of a text and theme of a text?
What is
a theme is the lesson or message found in a literary text
a theme is the universal message that goes beyond the text
a central idea is the main idea or point that is specific to the text that is read
A rectangle in a scale drawing is 6 cm by 9 cm. The scale is 1 cm : 4 m. Find the actual area in square meters.
What is 864 m²
A kind of sample produced when every member of a population has an equal chance of being selected.
What is Unbiased?
Steven’s family traveled 240 miles in 4 hours. What was their average speed in miles per hour?
A 40
B 50
C 60
D 70
C 60
Which macromolecule is used by living organisms as the primary source of energy?
A. Lipids
B. Proteins
C. Carbohydrates
D. Nucleic Acids
What Are Carbohydrates? (C)
Read the paragraph and select the word that means to show by good evidence.
The U.S. government has imposed labeling requirements on manufacturers who sell vitamins and other dietary supplements. The manufacturer must be able to substantiate any claims it makes about the products' benefits with facts or results of scientific studies.
What is substantiate?
Read the passage and select the best evidence to support the statement that the narrator has heard lots of frightening rumors about one of her neighbors.
We lived on the main residential street in town-Atticus, Jem and I, plus Calpurnia our cook... .
When I was almost six and Jem was nearly ten, our summertime boundaries (within calling distance of Calpurnia" were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house two doors to the north of us, and the Radley Place three doors to the south. We were never tempted to break them. The Radley place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end.
What is "The Radley place was inhabited by an unknown entity, the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave..."
or
What is Sentence 4?
Given a circle with diameter 10 m, find its area.
What is 78.5 square meters.
A cook prepared sack lunches for some hikers. Each lunch had a ham, turkey, or tuna sandwich, and
either a banana or a cereal bar.
What is the probability that a sack lunch selected at random contains a cereal bar?
A 1/2
B 1/3
C 1/5
D 1/6
What is B 1/3?
Garden Fresh deli sells 2 turkey sandwiches for $8.50. The total cost in dollars, , to buy turkey sandwiches can be modeled by the equation given.
y=?x
What value completes the proportional relationship?
What is 4.25?
Which genotype expresses homozygous dominant?
A. HH
B. Hh
C. hh
D. hH
What is HH? (A)
Read this excerpt from the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth..."
In the first line of the poem, what does the diverged mean?
A. Concluded
B. Separated
C. Overlapped
D. Continued
What is B. Separated?
Read the passage and select the best evidence to support the statement that Jeth and other characters are very thin.
Exhaling, Jeth lowered his gaze again. Movement across the way drew his attention to the door, and he saw Lizzie's yellow-haired cat stride into the common room, his bushy tail held high like a golden banner. In ironic contrast to the rest of them, Jeth realized how fat Viggo was looking these days, his belly a hairy satchel drooping between his legs.
Shaking his head, Jeth returned his focus to Sierra and Milton. "If Saar is so great, then how come I got away?"
What is "In ironic contrast to the rest of them, Jeth realized how fat Viggo was looking..."? or What is Sentence 3?
Name the type of angle pair: two angles that share a vertex and form a straight line.
What is Supplementary?
If you roll a fair six-sided die, what is the probability of rolling a 3?
What is 1/6?
If Frances can paint 1/5 of a wall in 20 minutes, how long will it take her to paint a room with 4 walls?
A 60 minutes
B 100 minutes
C 400 minutes
D 500 minutes
What is C 400 minutes?
What is another name for producer?
A. Consumer
B. Heterotroph
C. Scavenger
D. Autotroph
What is Autototroph? (D)
Read paragraph 1 from the passage titled, "The Man Who Invented Roller Skates."
"At one of Teresa Corneily's masquerades, a Belgian musician and inventor, John Joseph Merlin, made a grand entrance. He was wearing his new invention, ice skates fitted with rows of metal wheels instead of blades...Unfortunately, Merlin hadn't tested his new invention thoroughly, and he hadn't invented brakes. On the polished floor he could neither steer nor stop. He careened across the room and smashed into Corneily's plate glass mirror. The crash demolished the mirror and the violin..."
What is the meaning of the word careened as it used in paragraph 1?
A. crashed
B. flew
C. swayed
D. tripped
What is B. flew?
Read the passage.
Jonas Salk and Polio
Polio is a viral disease that produces flu-like symptoms and may occasionally cause muscle weakness and paralysis. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the disease was common, and parents feared that their children would lose the ability to move their arms or legs. In 1947, Dr. Jonas Salk began studying polio at the University of Pittsburgh in search of an answer. He discovered 3 basic types of polio viruses and began to develop a vaccine that would protect against all three. Testing began in 1952, with vaccinations eventually given to about 2 million children. The vaccine was shown to be effective and was put into general use in 1955. Jonas Salk became a hero and received an award from President Eisenhower.
What is the main, or central, idea of the passage?
A. Jonas Salk's vaccine for polio was tested in the early 1950s and put into general use in 1955.
B. Jonas Salk discovered that there were 3 different viruses that caused the disease called polio.
C. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that provided protection against the feared disease polio.
D. Polio was a viral disease that produced flu-like symptoms during the first half of the twentieth century.
What is C? Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that provided protection against the feared disease polio.
In a triangle, two angles measure 50° and 60°. The third angle is.
What is 70 degrees?
What is the probability of drawing an ace from a standard 52-card deck?
4/52 or 1/13
Place the correct option to complete the sentence.
Kayla is pricing whole-wheat flour.
The shop that sells flour for the lowest unit price is
What is Food Saver?
Which of the following chromosomes represent a female?
A. XX
B. XY
C. XS
D.YS
What is XX? (A)
Read paragraph 5 from the passage.
"Merlin devised many contraptions to make life easier for the sick or disabled. He A. designed the Morpheus chair, a wheelchair that reclined if the occupant needed to rest. His "gouty" B. chair-for those suffering from gout, a painful inflammation of the joints, often affecting the big toe-could be propelled and C. steered by turning winches on its arms. He also invented a rolling chair with a smaller wheel attached to the outside of each of the big wheels. D. By turning these outside wheels, the person in the chair could propel himself without the need for an attendant to push him. This is still a standard feature of wheelchairs today."
What is the meaning of contraptions as it used in the paragraph? Which of the underlined phrases from the paragraph helps the reader determine the meaning of contraptions?
a. applications
b. furnishings
c. gadgets
d. rollers
What is C. gadgets?
What is A. "designed the Morpheus chair, a wheelchair that reclined"?
Read the passage.
Migrant Farm Workers
In the 1960s, migrant farm workers, who traveled to the U.S. for seasonal work, labored under horrible conditions. They were paid low wages, had no access to toilets in the fields where they worked, and lived in unheated shacks. How could farm laborers with no voice combat this problem? Activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta joined forces to help them. They created a union called the United Farm Workers, or UFW, and organized California grape pickers to leave the fields and go on strike. They also initiated a boycott, convincing millions of people around the country to stop buying California grapes from the nonunion growers. By 1970, many grape growers had signed an agreement with the UFW, promising higher wages, better working conditions, and health-care benefits.
What is the main, or central, idea of the passage?
A. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized farm workers to get better pay and working conditions.
B. In the 1960s, migrant farm workers worked in harsh environments for low pay, but they lacked a way to fight for better working conditions.
C. Activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta cofounded the United Farm Workers union.
D. By 1970, grape growers had signed an agreement with the UFW promising better conditions for the migrant workers.
What is A? Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized farm workers to get better pay and working conditions.
A circular trampoline has an area of 132.2 square feet.What is the radius of the trampoline? (rounded to the nearest tenth)
A. 21 ft.
B. 7.3 ft
C. 6.5 ft.
D. 3.7 ft.
What is 6.5 ft?
If a 24-hour restaurant plans to survey its customers about changes in the menu, which group below will provide the most representative sample?
A 5 customers chosen at random every 2 hours during the week
B customers at the 4:00 Early Bird Special
C 25 customers eating a lunch plate
D 35 customers on Burger Night
A 5 customers chosen at random every 2 hours during the week.
A 10-pack case of bubblegum costs $5.49. Each pack of bubblegum costs approximately .
A. 0.05
B. 0.55
C. 0.92
D. 1.38
What is B 0.55?
Which type of reproduction involves only one organism as a parent?
A. sexual reproduction
B. asexual reproduction
C. heterosexual reproduction
D. monosexual reproduction
What is asexual reproduction? (B)