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McCleskey Miscellaneous
Potpourri
100

This is the correct solution to x - 8 = 14

What is 22?

100

This is considered the "powerhouse" of the cell.

What is the mitochondrion? 

100

This part of speech describes a noun

What is an adjective?

100

This man was the leader of the Indian independence movement.

Who is Ghandi?

100

This is the number of home rooms in 7th grade.

What is 8?

100

This is the number of days in a year.

What is 365?

200

Two angles that sum to 180 degrees are called this.

What are supplementary angles?

200

These are the six classification groups of living organisms.

What are archaea, bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals?
200

This part of speech may describe a verb or an adjective.

What is an adverb?

200

This was the legally-sanctioned system of racial segregation in South Africa.

What was apartheid?

200

This is the number of administrators at McCleskey.

What is 3?

200

This is the largest organism in the human body.

What is the skin?

300

-25 - 7 - (-4) simplified equals this number.

What is -28?

300

This organelle is the site of photosynthesis in a cell.

What is a chloroplast?
300

This part of an essay is like a claim for your entire essay, stating specifically what it is you'll be talking about or arguing for.

What is a thesis?

300

This refers to a system of government in which the people exercise power by electing representatives.

What is a representative democracy?

300

This is the name of the road on which McCleskey sits.

What is Maybreeze Road?

300

A right triangle has a height of 8 inches and a base of 4 inches.  This is its area.

What is 16 inches ^2?

400
Two angles are complementary; one equals 37 degrees.  This is the measure of the other.

What is 53 degrees?

400
This is the name for a type of organism that can create its own energy from simple inorganic substances, like carbon dioxide.
What is an autotroph?
400

This is the meaning of the prefix "-mono."

What is "one"?

400

This is the country that the United States invaded first after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

What is Afghanistan?

400

This is the area of the school through which bus riders are dismissed.

What is the covered play area?

400

These are the 8 parts of speech.

What are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection?

500

A circle has a diameter of 10 feet.  This is its area.

What is 25 pi or 78.5?

500

This is the term for an observable characteristic in an animal that results from the interaction of a genotype and the environment.

What is a phenotype?

500

This is the part of speech of the words "with" and "of."

What is a preposition?

500

This is the economic and governmental system around which contemporary China is organized.

What is communism?
500

This is the time at which teachers are contracted to arrive at McCleskey.

What is 8:30?

500

If you have agoraphobia, you are afraid of this.

What are public spaces?

600

The solution for the following equation, -4(3p - 8) = -16, is this.

What is p=4? 

600

These are the three things a plant needs in order to perform photosynthesis.

What are carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight?

600

In the following sentence, this is the part of speech of the word "after": "After the game, we went to Pizza Hut."

What is a preposition?

600

This was an incident in China in 1989 where a reformist rebellion was violently quelled by the government.

What is Tiananmen Square Protest and Massacre?

600

This is the time at which teacher are contractually allowed to leave McCleskey.

What is 4:30?

600
This is the location of the smallest bone in the human body.

What is inside the ear?

700

A rectangular prism has a length of 3 cm, a width of 5 cm, and a height of 6 cm.  This is its surface area.

What is 126 cm ^2?

700

Assume tallness is a dominant trait and shortness is recessive.  Dad is heterozygous tall, and mom is homozygous short.  These are the odds their child is short.

What is 50 percent?

700

This is the verb in the following sentence: "Before the summer, he could have been playing baseball."

What is "could have been playing"?

700

This is the name for a social or governmental system in which a small group of the wealthy elite makes all of the decisions.

What is a plutocracy?  (Also acceptable: What is an oligarchy?)

700

This is the name of the superintendent of Cobb County Schools.

Who is Mr. Ragsdale?

700

This is the type of figurative language used in the following sentence: "The cold whispering of the wind made my ears shiver."

What is personification?