8th Grade Math
In PEMDAS this is what the letter P stand for in the equation.
What is Parentheses?
The three states of matter are solid, liquid and...
What is gas?
This is when 2 words means the same thing.
What is a synonym?
This was the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
The name of our current Pope
These are the factors of 10?
What is 1,2,5 and 10?
Name the step of the water cycle in which the process turns the liquid into vapor.
What is evaporation?
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?
In this war... the U.S. fought itself...
What is the Civil War
The 28 day period leading up to Christmas.
What is Advent?
The Least Common Multiple of 15 and 12.
What is a 60?
Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, and Iapetus are just some of the moons orbiting this planet.
What is Saturn?
This is what you call a book that talks about a person's life from beginning to end.
What is an Biography
What state is affectionately referred to as "The Big Apple?"
Where is New York?
The number of Sacraments the church has.
What is seven?
one fourth of $300
What is $75
This is the process called when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy?
What is Photosynthesis?
This is a sensory detail in a piece of writing that evokes a mental picture for the reader.
What is imagery?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote in 1870.
What is the 15th Amendment?
A representation of a cross with a figure of Jesus on it.
What is a crucifix?
The longest side of a right-angled triangle (opposite the right-angle).
What is a hypotenuse?
This is an area where living and nonliving things interact with one another.
What is an ecosystem?
A sentence that has two independent clauses and is combined with a semicolon would be classified as this.
What is compound?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Another name for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
What is Penance or Confession?
The name of this sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
This is an area of land that is partly covered with water or flooded at least part of each year.
What is a wetland
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.
This is what you call when a large group of people move (or migrate) from one country to live in another.
What is Immigration
The action where we bend one knee towards the Tabernacle
What is genuflect?
A “enneadecagon” has this many sides.
What is 19?
In humans, this is the only internal organ capable of regenerating lost tissue.
What is the liver?
This is an essay that allows the writer to take a side and defend it
What is a persuasive/argumentative essay?
This Roman achievement carried water from the mountains to the cities.
What was an aqueduct?
The day that the Holy Spirit came down to Earth.
What is Pentecost?
"I'll be back in a jiffy!" - This is the length of an actual jiffy.
What is 1/100th of a second?
This is an alloy consisting of a mix of copper and tin.
This is conversations between characters in a literary text usually written between quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
This state is known as the "Prairie State."
What is Illinois?
The book of teachings of the Catholic Church.
What is the Catechism?