Language & Literature
This literary device involves the repetition of initial consonant sounds, often used in poetry or persuasive speeches.
What is Alliteration?
This is the basic unit of life; in MYP Science, you learn to distinguish between the "Plant" and "Animal" versions.
What is a Cell?
This is the term for the total market value of all finished goods and services produced within a country in a year.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
In a right-angled triangle, this is the name given to the longest side, opposite the right angle.
What is the Hypotenuse?
In the Design Cycle, this is the first stage where you research the problem and develop a design brief.
What is Inquiring and Analyzing?
In a narrative arc, this is the turning point of highest tension where the protagonist must face the main conflict.
What is the Climax?
On the pH scale, a substance with a value of 2 would be considered a "Strong" version of this.
What is an Acid?
In geography, these lines run East to West and measure a location's distance North or South of the Equator.
What are lines of Latitude?
This is the result of a division problem.
What is a Quotient?
In visual arts, these three colors (Red, Yellow, and Blue) cannot be created by mixing other colors.
What are Primary Colors?
This type of "irony" occurs when the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
This law of physics states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law?
This historical "Road" was a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
In statistics, this is the "middle" value in a list of numbers ordered from smallest to largest.
What is the Median?
This drama term refers to a long speech by a single character in a play or movie.
What is a Monologue?
This term refers to the associations or emotional meanings a word carries, beyond its literal dictionary definition.
What is Connotation?
In a scientific experiment, this is the variable that the scientist deliberately changes or manipulates.
What is the Independent Variable?
This economic concept describes the phenomenon where prices rise and the purchasing power of money falls.
What is Inflation?
This mathematical constant represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is Pi
In music, this term describes the speed or pace of a given piece.
What is Tempo?
In an MYP essay, this is the specific sentence that clearly states your main argument or position.
What is a Thesis Statement?
This is the process by which green plants use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
What is Photosynthesis?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This type of sequence is one where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous one by a fixed, non-zero number.
What is a Geometric Sequence?
This design term refers to a preliminary version or model of a product from which other forms are developed
What is a Prototype?