8th Grade Science
DAILY DOUBLE!
This is the middle layer of the Earth, located directly below the crust, and makes up most of the Earth's volume.
What is the mantle?
A word that modifies, describes, or quantifies a noun or pronoun
Adjective
This value represents where a linear graph crosses the vertical (y) axis
y intercept
In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, this teenager from Brooklyn becomes the new Spider-Man after Peter Parker.
Miles Morales
This is the date that the United States became a country?
July, 4th 1776
These are the columns on the periodic table, and elements within the same one share similar chemical properties.
What are groups (or families)?
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics, feelings, or actions to non-human things, like "the wind howled in the night."
What is personification?
What is the solution to the equation (2x + 4 = 12)?
x=4
This viral, blocky sandbox game remains one of the most popular in the world, letting players build anything from dirt huts to massive castles.
What is Minecraft?
He wrote the article the Boston Massacre and road through the countryside to alert the Minutemen that the British have arrived?
Paul Revere
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell" because it converts glucose into usable energy
What is the mitochondrion (or mitochondria)?
To repeat a passage or statement from a text word-for-word, usually enclosed in quotation marks.
What is to quote (or a quotation)?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is 10 squared
100
This American singer-songwriter and actress dominated the summer of 2024 with her viral, catchy pop anthem "Espresso."
Who is Sabrina Carpenter?
This group of rebels dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw tea in to the Boston Harbor?
The Sons of Liberty
This stage of the water cycle occurs when water vapor cools down and changes back into liquid water, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
A character struggling against their own internal doubts or a difficult moral choice is facing this specific type of conflict.
What is character vs. self (or internal conflict)?
This type of graph or line has a slope that is undefined.
Vertical Line
DAILY DOUBLE!
At just 17 years old, this soccer prodigy took the world by storm, scoring a legendary goal to help Spain win the Euro 2024 tournament.
Who is Lamine Yamal?
He was known as the first casualty of the Revolutionary War?
Crispus Attucks
According to Newton's Third Law of Motion, for every action, there is an equal and opposite this.
What is a reaction?
An extreme exaggeration used to make a point, like saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is the (y)-intercept of the linear equation (y = -3x + 7)?
7
Standing 6-foot-7, this powerhouse outfielder captains the New York Yankees and famously broke the American League record by blasting 62 home runs in 2022.
Who is Aaron Judge?
This king was known as a tyrant and oppressed the colonist?
King George III