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?
What is the capital of the United States of America?
What is Washington D.C.
The term "giga" refers to this number.
What is a billion?
The name of this sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, and Iapetus are just some of the moons orbiting this planet.
What is Saturn?
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?
This was the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
This country shares a border with the United States to the North.
Canada
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 what you call a book that talks about a person's life from beginning to end.
What is an Biography
In this war... the U.S. fought itself...
What is the Civil War
This food was created by accident after a chef angrily cut thin slices of potatoes, deep fried them and covered with salt.
Potato Chips
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?
This is a sensory detail in a piece of writing that evokes a mental picture for the reader.
What is imagery?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
How many bones does a shark have?
Zero
These are the factors of 10?
What is 1,2,5 and 10?
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 Earth’s largest ocean.
The Pacific
Type of number with a numerator and denominator. Part of a whole.
What is a Fraction?
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 amendment granted African American men the right to vote in 1870.
What is the 15th Amendment?
What is Superman's weakness?
Kryptonite!
A “enneadecagon” has this many sides.
What is 19?
This is an adaptation used by some animals to help hide from predators and is seen in chameleons
What is Camouflage
This is an essay that allows the writer to take a side and defend it
What is a persuasive/argumentative essay?
This state is known as the "Prairie State."
What is Illinois?
These famous 5 rings are colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red.
What are the Olympic rings?
This number does not have its own Roman Numeral
What is 0? (zero)
In humans, this is the only internal organ capable of regenerating lost tissue.
What is the liver?
A sentence that has two independent clauses and is combined with a semicolon would be classified as this.
What is compound?
What is the capital of North Dakota?
What is Bismarck?
Water freezes at what temperature?
ZERO degrees Celsius and/or 32 degrees Fahrenheit
The Least Common Multiple of 15 and 12.
What is a 60?
This is what an animal who breaks down dead things is called.
What is a decomposer?
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?
This Roman achievement carried water from the mountains to the cities.
What was an aqueduct?
The biggest planet in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Jupiter
"I'll be back in a jiffy!" - This is the length of an actual jiffy.
What is 1/100th of a second?
Name the step of the water cycle in which the process turns the liquid into vapor.
What is evaporation?
What are the names of Jonas' two best friends in The Giver? Their roles are drastically changed in the movie version.
Who are Asher and Fiona?
What state is known as the Silver State? It's written on their license plates.
Where is Nevada?
Which infinity stone do the Guardians of the Galaxy steal and then protect in their first movie?
Power