8th Grade Math
8th Grade Science
8th Grade ELA
8th Social Studies
Mrs. Shepherd
100

In PEMDAS this is what the letter P stand for in the equation.

What is Parentheses?

100

The three states of matter are solid, liquid and...

What is gas?

100

This is when 2 words means the same thing.

 What is a synonym?

100

What is the capital of the United States of America?

What is Washington D.C.

100

This is Mrs. Shepherd's first name

What is Rachel

200

The name of this sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…

What is the Fibonacci Sequence?

200

Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, and Iapetus are just some of the moons orbiting this planet.

What is Saturn?

200

This figure of speech is being used in this sentence “The boy felt like a lion because he was so courageous”

What is a Simile?

200

This was the year the Declaration of Independence was signed. 

What is 1776?

200

This is the high school Mrs. Shepherd graduated from 

Adna

300

one fourth of $300

What is $75

300

This is the process called when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy?

What is Photosynthesis?

300

This is what you call a book that talks about a person's life from beginning to end.

What is an Biography

300

In this war... the U.S. fought itself...

What is the Civil War

300

This is Mrs. Shepherd's favorite animal

What are dogs

(bonus point if you name her dog)

400

The longest side of a right-angled triangle (opposite the right-angle).

What is a hypotenuse?

400

This is an area where living and nonliving things interact with one another.

What is an ecosystem?

400

This is a sensory detail in a piece of writing that evokes a mental picture for the reader. 

What is imagery?

400

This amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States in 1920. 

What is the 19th Amendment?

400

This is the year Mrs. Shepherd was born

What is 1999

500

These are the factors of 10?

What is 1,2,5 and 10?

500

This is an area of land that is partly covered with water or flooded at least part of each year.

What is a wetland

500

A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective or a verb.  Example: She swims quickly. ("quickly" is the word)

What is an adverb.

500

This is what you call when a large group of people move (or migrate) from one country to live in another.

What is Immigration

500

Mrs. Shepherd has a bachelor's degree in this field of science

What is geology

600

Type of number with a numerator and denominator. Part of a whole.

What is a Fraction?

600

This is an alloy consisting of a mix of copper and tin. 

What is bronze? 
600

A dog barking up the wrong tree is an example of this

What is an idiom

600

This amendment granted African American men the right to vote in 1870. 

What is the 15th Amendment?

600

This is the instrument Mrs. Shepherd played in high school.

What is the flute?

700

A “enneadecagon” has this many sides. 

What is 19?

700

This is an adaptation used by some animals to help hide from predators and is seen in chameleons 

What is Camouflage 

700

This is an essay that allows the writer to take a side and defend it

What is a persuasive/argumentative essay?

700

This state is known as the "Prairie State." 

What is Illinois?

700

This is Mrs. Shepherd's maiden name.

What is White?

800

This number does not have its own Roman Numeral

What is 0? (zero)

800

In humans, this is the only internal organ capable of regenerating lost tissue.

What is the liver?


800

A sentence that has two independent clauses and is combined with a semicolon would be classified as this. 

What is compound?

800

He is the current Speaker of the House. 

Who is Kevin McCarthy?

800

This is Mrs. Shepherd's birthday month.

What is August

900

The Least Common Multiple of 15 and 12.

What is a 60?

900

This is what an animal who breaks down dead things is called.

What is a decomposer?

900

The most important sentence in an essay that expresses the main idea of a passage.  All other details must support this.

What is a topic sentence or thesis?

900

This Roman achievement carried water from the mountains to the cities.

What was an aqueduct?

900

This is the name of Mrs. Shepherd's husband.

What is Tyler?
1000

"I'll be back in a jiffy!" - This is the length of an actual jiffy. 

What is 1/100th of a second?

1000

Name the step of the water cycle in which the process turns the liquid into vapor.

What is evaporation?

1000

This is conversations between characters in a literary text usually written between quotation marks.

What is dialogue?

1000

What state is affectionately referred to as "The Big Apple?"

Where is New York?

1000

This is the number of siblings Mrs. Shepherd has

One