Math Vocabulary
This is the term for lines that interest and form a 90-degree angle.
What is perpendicular.
This is the number of hours in one year, assuming it is not a leap year.
What is 8,640 hours?
How many punctuation marks (total) should be in the following sentence?
While I was at his house John asked Do you want anything to eat
Five.
While I was at his house, John asked, "Do you want anything to eat?"
A litotes is a dramatic understatement originating in Old English literature. Name this literary device, the opposite of litotes.
What is hyperbole?
This type of ecosystem is a treeless, cold desert found in the arctic and the tops of mountains. Much of these areas are covered in permafrost and are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
What is a tundra?
A triangle with two equal sides is an isosceles triangle. Name this type of triangle, which has no equal sides.
What is scalene?
This is the greatest common factor of the following numbers: 12, 82, 113, 134
What is one?
How many adverbs are in the following sentence? "Eddie crabbily demanded that someone pass him the tray of salted peanuts."
One. (crabbily)
"Jumbo shrimp," "bittersweet," and "open secret" are examples of this figure of speech.
What is oxymoron.
Everything with mass is made up of neutrons, protons, and electrons, but these even smaller subatomic particles make up protons and neutrons.
What are quarks.
This term is defined as the distance a number is from zero on a number line.
What is absolute value.
This is the mean of the following numbers: 15, 57, 95, 105, 35, 56, 85.
What is 64.
Walt Disney is credited with the quote, "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Identify the gerunds in this quote.
What is "talking" and "doing."
In the line of poetry, "while I nodded nearly napping," what literary device is used?
alliteration
This type of bond is also called an electrovalent bond, formed from the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions in a chemical compound.
ionic bond
If 4-3x=x-20, then x must equal this.
What is 6.
This literary term is used to describe a psychological struggle within the mind of a character.
What is internal conflict.
This is a group of atoms bonded together, the smallest possible unit in a chemical compound.
molecule
This is the slope of a line that passes through points (9, -4) and (5, -2).
What is -0.5.
At the concert, at least four solos were sung by the soprano. What is the voice form of the preceding sentence?