A Little Bit of Science
Anything that causes an organism to respond.
What is a stimulus?
This amendment to the Constitution ended slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
A word that sounds like buzz or hiss.
What is onomatopoeia?
A closed, two-dimensional shape made up of straight line segments.
What is a polygon?
The largest planet in our solar system?
What is Jupiter?
An explanation to a question, an educated guess?
What is a hypothesis?
1941 and 1945
When did the U.S. enter WW 2 and When did it end?
In a story, this is the name for the person who faces the conflict.
What is the protagonist?
This measures more than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
What is an obtuse angle?
The only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
He concluded that traits are inherited as discrete units (which we now call genes) and that these traits are passed down in specific mathematical ratios, establishing the first laws of inheritance.
Who is Gregor Mendel
This was a network of secret routes and safe houses used to help enslaved African Americans escape to free states and Canada before the Civil War.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This is the art of persuasive speech.
What is rhetoric?
These figures have exactly the same size or shape although they may be positioned differently.
What are congruent figures?
The number of bones in the human body?
What is 206?
The idea that tiny changes can lead to huge differences later on or putting it another day, small actions have big consequences over time.
What is the Butterfly Effect?
After WW 1, this agreement imposed harsh penalties upon Germany caused resentment and led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
What is the treaty of Versailles?
This philosopher developed the triangle of appeals used in persuasive writing and oration.
Who is Aristotle?
The distance around the outside of a shape, measured in linear units (like cm or m).
What is perimeter?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's third Law of Motion?
Written in 1787, this document replaced the weaker Articles of Confederation.
What was the U.S. Constitution?
A reference to something outside of the literary work itself.
What is an allusion?
The principle states that a² + b² = c² used to find the length of any side of a right triangle when you know the other two sides.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
The artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?