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When two or more independent clauses are incorrectly joined together.
What is a run-on sentence?
A cargo ship traveled 180 nautical miles in 6 hours at a constant speed. How far did the cargo ship travel in one hour?
What is 30 nautical miles?
In this state of matter, molecules are tightly packed together in a fixed pattern and can only vibrate in place.
What is a solid?
Ancient China and other Asian empires used this special, specific road to connect to other parts of the world.
What is the Silk Road?
What is one of the most important skills needed to be successful in any team sport?
What is teamwork?
The most exciting or important turning point in the plot.
What is the climax?
A store is having a 20%-off sale on all merchandise. If Mai buys one item and saves $13, what was the original price of her purchase?
What is $65? (if $13 is 20% multiply by 5 to find 100% = $65)
This organelle is often called the "powerhouse of the cell" because it breaks down food to create usable energy.
What is the mitochondria (or mitochondrion)?
This civilization is know by it's structures, by the river, and inventions that helped the world.
What is Ancient Egypt?
What should you do before participating in physical activity to prepare your body and help prevent injuries?
What is warm up and stretch?
This paragraph structure used in several subjects is a 3-letter acronym.
What is a CER?
8.76 divided by 3.65. This must be solved using long division.
What is 2.4?
When you add thermal energy to a substance, what happens to the speed and movement of its molecules?
They speed up (move faster) and spread further apart (intermolecular space increases).
Two of the first-known mythological creators of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
In basketball, what is the name of the violation that occurs when a player takes too many steps without dribbling the ball?
What is traveling?
This literary device occurs when a writer gives hints or clues about events that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A zookeeper is 6 1/4 feet tall. A young giraffe in his care is 9 3/8 feet tall. How many times as tall as the zookeeper is the giraffe?
What is 3/2 or 1.5 times as tall?
If two objects are the exact same size, but one has much more matter packed into it than the other, that object has a higher what?
What is density?
The country that has the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Nepal?
In volleyball, a team is allowed a maximum of how many touches before sending the ball over the net?
What is three?
Figurative language that is used in the sentence: "The stars danced across the sky"?
What is personification?
A radar gun measured the speed of a tennis serve at 84 miles per hour. If the ball was actually going 80 miles per hour, what was the percent error in this measurement?
What is 5%?
How to solve: * Find the error: $84 - 80 = 4 Divide by the actual value: 4/80 Simplify the fraction: 1/20 Convert to a percentage by multiplying by 5 so 5/100
Because oceanic crust has a higher density than continental crust, it gets forced downward into the mantle when they collide (convergent plate boundary). What is the specific name for this sinking process?
What is subduction?
When Ancient Greece was founded.
What is 800 – 323 BCE?
Which swimming stroke is generally considered the fastest in competitive swimming?
What is freestyle (front crawl)