Math
A symbol that represents an unknown quantity in an equation.
What is a variable?
A farming technique that involves cutting into the ground slightly to plant seeds.
What is “no-till” farming?
Effective communicators match this with their words.
What is body language?
"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus compares this American icon to the Colossus of Rhodes in Ancient Greece, and describes how she welcomes immigrants with "World Wide Welcome".
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This law, which restricted Chinese immigration was the first major U.S. law restricting immigration.
What is the "Chinese Exclusion Act"?
Rise over run is shorthand/another way to describe this.
What is Rate of change or slope
The biogeochemical cycle that features photosynthesis.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
This neurotransmitter is associated with pleasure and reward
What dopamine?
Dana, the hero of the novel Kindred has this job in 1970s Los Angeles.
What is writer?
People who belonged to this movement wanted to "abolish" or end slavery.
Who are "Abolitionists"?
The Enlightenment Era Philosopher and Polymath who invented the coordinate plane.
Who is René Descartes?
Holistic management and planned grazing use this animal to regenerate grassland.
What are cows?
a card, issued by a bank, store, or other business, that is used to borrow money or buy goods and services on credit; consumers make regular payments to repay the bank, store, or business.
What is a credit card?
In Alex Haley's Roots, this character was a Mandinka warrior who was kidnapped from his home in Africa and enslaved on a plantation in Virginia.
Who is Kunta Kinte?
This document, written by Thomas Jefferson formally announced that the American Colonies were separating themselves from the British Crown.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Arabic meaning of algebra (al-jabr), which literally means “bone-setting.” (hint: the name describes how you solve equations!)
What is Calculation by Completion and Balancing
The process by which water enters the atmosphere through plants.
What is Transpiration?
the amount of money received in a particular time (weekly, monthly, yearly) in exchange for work.
What is income?
In the novel, Susanna's Midnight Ride, Susanna Bolling helps the Americans win this war by warning American ally General Lafayette about a plot to kidnap him.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws that govern the country.
What is the Legislative Branch?
You do this to a variable to solve an equation.
What is isolate?
This movie star, famous for Zombieland, features as the narrator for the documentary Kiss the Ground.
Who is Woody Harrelson?
This is a phenomenon where the body adapts to the effects of a drug and requires larger doses to achieve the same effect
What is tolerance?
In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the citizens of this Massachusetts town accuse each other of witchcraft during the colonial era.
What is Salem?
This town, near where Pocahontas first met John Smith and her husband John Rolfe was the first permanent English colony in North America.