ELA
What literary device uses a part of something to represent the whole, such as saying "all hands on deck" to refer to workers?
Metaphor
Often called the "powerhouse of the cell," what organelle generates most of the cell's energy?
Mitochondria
In what year was the United States Declaration of Independence adopted?
1776
What general term describes animals that eat only plants?
Herbivore
What creates the sound of thunder during a thunderstorm?
Rapid Heating And growing of air caused by a lighting bolt
What literary device gives human qualities, characteristics, or actions to non-human objects or animals?
Personification
What chemical process do plants use to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen?
Photosynthesis
Who was the first official emperor of the Roman Empire, ruling after the fall of the Roman Republic?
Caesar Augustus
What group of mammals, which includes kangaroos and koalas, give birth to underdeveloped young that grow inside a pouch?
Answer: Marsupials
What nickname is given to the region in the central United States famous for having a high frequency of tornadoes?
Tornado Alley
What figure of speech uses extreme exaggeration to make a point, such as "I've told you a million times"?
Hyperbole
What chemical element on the periodic table has the symbol Fe?
Iron
What famous 1215 English charter limited the power of the king and established that everyone is subject to the law?
Magna Carta
What process describes the dramatic physical transformation an insect undergoes from larva to adult, like a caterpillar into a butterfly?
Metamorphosis
What scale rates tornado intensity from 0 to 5 based on wind speed and structural damage?
The Enhanced Fujita Scale(EF or F doesnt count)
What technique does an author use to give subtle hints or clues about events that will happen later in the story?
Foreshadowing
What type of energy does an object possess simply due to its motion?
Kinetic energy
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 triggered the start of which global conflict?
World War I
What biological process allows organisms like fireflies and deep-sea anglerfish to generate light in their bodies?
Bioluminescence
What specific type of severe thunderstorm contains a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone?
Supercell
What poetic meter consists of ten syllables per line following an unstressed/stressed pattern, commonly used in Shakespeare's plays?
ambic pentameter
What term describes the absolute lowest possible temperature, where all molecular motion stops
Absolute zero
Which 1815 battle marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte?
Battle of Waterloo
What specialized group of egg-laying mammals includes the platypus and the echidna?
Monotremes
What localized, intense column of sinking air inside a thunderstorm causes sudden, damaging wind gusts on the ground?
Microburst (or Downburst)