Civics
The branch of government that is responsible for making laws and consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the legislative branch?
Tangible products like books and automobiles that we use to satisfy your needs and wants
What are goods?
What is a theme?
An angle with a measure greater than 0° and less than 90°
What is an acute angle?
any energy source that is naturally replenished, like that derived from solar, wind, geothermal or hydroelectric action
What is a renewable energy source?
Written body of laws that is the Supreme Law of the Land in the United States
What is the constitution?
Work that is performed for someone else such as a beautician or mechanic
What is a service?
Insufficient: Which of the following has insufficient evidence to support it?
Geometric figures that have the same size and the same shape.
What are congruent figures?
a rising of seawater, magma, or other liquid
What is upwelling?
A system of government in which two political parties compete for power
What is a two-party system?
An economic system in which competition is allowed to flourish with no government interference
What is free enterprise?
evidence found within a particular text used to support or explain conclusions, opinions, and/or assertions about the text itself
What is textual evidence?
A line drawn on a scatter plot to best estimate the relationship between two sets of data. It describes the trend of the data.
first formulated in Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, is the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits
What is the theory of biological evolution?
A system established by the Constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is a system of checks and balances?
A tax imposed by a government on goods and services imported from other countries
What is a tariff?
a brief account of a text’s central or main points, themes, or ideas that is free of bias, prejudice, and personal opinion and does not incorporate outside information
What is an objective summary?
The number by which the length(s) of a geometric object is multiplied to generate a similar geometric object.
What is the scale factor?
changes affecting the form of a chemical substance, but not its chemical composition
What is a physical change?
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically governed by elected representatives
What is a democracy?
When production amounts to more than what is needed or used; excess
What is a surplus?
a conclusion derived from logical reasoning following an investigation of available evidence
What is an inference?
Two angles for which the sum of their measures is 180°
What are supplementary angles?
for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as system's mass cannot change, so quantity can neither be added nor be removed
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?