Science
This is the name of the blanket of air that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
This region of SC has fast-flowing rivers that are used for hydroelectric power.
What is the Piedmont?
It, they, he, she, and we are all examples of this part of speech
What is a pronoun?
This term refers to a polygon with four equal sides and four right angles
What is a square?
What is Atlanta?
This is the name of the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Name the three main Native American tribes in SC.
Who were the Cherokee, Catawba, and Yemassee?
"The waves were as rough as a roller coaster ride" is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a simile?
If you have a pizza divided into 8 slices and eat 3 slices, this fraction represents the part of the left pizza.
What is 5/8?
This is how the Hawaiian Islands were formed.
What are volcanoes?
This is the term that is used to describe the energy of an object when it is moving.
What is kinetic energy?
This economic activity was most common in the Middle colonies.
What are breadbasket/grains, harbors, and trade?
This is the narrative writing term for language that creates a picture or a snapshot in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
In the equation 2x + 4 = 10, solving for x gives you this number.
What is 3?
This is the largest animal to ever live on planet Earth.
What is the Blue Whale?
This is the variable in an experiment that the scientist purposely changes. It is also found on the x-axis of a graph.
What is the independent variable?
This was the direction in which people began moving in the US because of Manifest Destiny in the 1800s.
What is the west?
Mystery, fantasy, biography, fiction, and science fiction are all examples of this literary term.
What is genre?
If a car travels at a speed of 60 miles per hour, it will cover this distance in 5 hours.
What is 300 miles?
This was the year that Meadow Glen Middle School opened its door to students for the first time.
What is 2012?
This is the distance from the Sun to the Earth.
What is roughly 93 million miles?
These were the names of the two entry points for immigrants coming into the US in the early 1900s.
What were Ellis Island and Angel Island?
"It is about a thousand degrees below zero in this cold classroom!" is an example of this type of figurative language - also called exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
These are the first six digits of pi.
What is 3.14159?
Mount Rushmore is located in what US state?
What is South Dakota?