Middle School Science
Middle School History
Middle School English
Geography
100
What are the three states of matter?
Solid, liquid, gas
100
What holiday honors the end of slavery?
100
The moral or life lesson of a story
What is a theme?
100
How many countries does the United States share a land border with?
TWO
200
What is an invasive species?
Plant or animal that is not native to an area and causes problems
200
Which war was fought over slavery and states' rights between the North and South regions in the United States?
The Civil War
200
This is the word for classic books and collected works.
What is literature?
200
India is part of what continent?
300
What is the "brain" of a cell?
300
D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, France occurred during WHICH WAR?
WORLD WAR TWO
300
What does it mean to cite your evidence?
Tell the reader where it came from
300
Barcelona, Spain
400
Global warming is caused by...?
human activities and/or the greenhouse effect
400
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two men in the entire world to do what?
Walk on the moon
400
What makes a character "dynamic"?
Change!
400
key
500
What natural hazard destroyed Pompeii in 79 A.D.?
volcano
500
Who invented the lightbulb in 1879?
Thomas Edison
500
What words or phrases should NOT be included in a claim?
"I think"
"I believe"
"My opinion"
500
In which European country is London, located?
ENGLAND
600
Animals without backbones are known as ____.
600
What are the first 10 amendments of the Constitution called?
600
The point of highest tension and drama in a book or story.
The climax of a story
600
Seoul, a capital city located on the Han River, is in which Asian Country?
South Korea
700
Galileo was among the first to use which invention?
TELESCOPE
700
This 'war' was a battle of communism vs. capitalism from 1945 - 1991.
COLD WAR
700
The protagonist is the hero of the story, the person who is struggling or trying to do what they think is right.
The ________________is the opposing force in a story. It could be a human enemy, or it could be non-human, like an animal or something less tangible, like fear.
antagonist
700
What razor-thin country accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America?
Chile