Science
The process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
An author hints at events that will happen later in the story using this literary technique.
What is foreshadowing?
This line of longitude at 0° divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This sandbox video game lets players gather resources and craft items, demonstrating basic engineering and survival skills.
What is Minecraft?
She went to this college or university.
What is Oakland City University?
This part of the cell controls the cell’s activities and contains genetic material.
What is the nucleus?
In Hidden Figures, the main characters face segregation while working for this U.S. government agency.
What is NASA?
During the Space Race, the United States competed primarily against this country.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
This sport uses terms like “mean” and “average” to calculate player statistics.
What is baseball?
She has coached these 2 sports.
What are swimming and tennis?
This scientist created three laws of motion that describe how objects move.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The perspective in which the narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is third-person omniscient?
This Southeast Asian country wasn't colonized by the Europeans; formerly known as Siam.
What is Thailand?
This inventor is credited with improving the light bulb and holding over 1,000 patents.
Who is Thomas Edison?
She got this degree in college.
What are bachelors in Human Biology and Chemistry / Masters in Business Administration?
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During the Space Race, mathematicians at NASA calculated launch windows based on Earth’s rotation and orbital motion. If Earth rotates 15 degrees every hour, how many degrees does it rotate in 4 hours?
What is 60 degrees?
This literary device gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
The first governing document of the United States, replaced in 1789.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This slang term means something is extremely impressive or cool.
What is “fire” (or “lit”)?
She went to state in this sport in high school.
What is swimming?
The shape and steepness of the land.
What is topography?
In the 1793 novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, this mosquito-borne disease devastates Philadelphia.
What is Yellow Fever?
The name of the first paragraph in the constitution.
What is the Preamble?
The COVID-19 pandemic caused schools to shift to remote learning, accelerating the use of this type of communication technology for live classes.
What is video conferencing (Google Meets/Zoom)?
They are her son and dog.
Who are Greyson and Minny?