math-a-whatics?
What is the mathematical term for a number divided into multiple parts that is commonly used for cooking & baking
What is a fraction?
This term describes a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same forwards and backwards, such as "racecar."
What is a palindrome?
This green pigment absorbs light energy for photosynthesis in plants.
What is chlorophyll?
This collective name identifies the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the mathematical term for a number that can only be divided by itself and one.
What is a prime number
This figure of speech gives human traits to non-human things, as in "the wind whispered through the dark trees."
What is personification?
This organelle is widely known as the powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
This man is famously credited with discovering gold at Sutter’s Mill, helping spark the California Gold Rush.
Who is John Sutter?
This is the area of a right triangle with a base of 6 inches and a height of 8 inches.
What is 24 square inches?
This is the term for a word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning and spelling, such as bare and bear.
What is a homophone
This type of rock is formed when existing rocks are altered by intense heat and pressure deep underground.
What is metamorphic rock?
This historic Allied amphibious invasion took place on the beaches of Normandy, France, during World War II.
What is D-Day/battle of D-Day
This is the value of Pi rounded to the nearest thousandth.
What is 3.142/3.141
This narrative point of view uses pronouns like "he," "she," and "they," while an omniscient narrator knows the thoughts of all characters
What is third-person POV
This celestial band of rocky objects orbits the sun in a belt located directly between Mars and Jupiter
What is Asteroids/ The Asteroid Belt
This 1863 turning-point battle in the American Civil War had the farthest northern engagement during the main Confederate invasion.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This is the sum of the interior angles of a pentagon.
What is 540 degrees?
This poetic device is the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
This clinical name is given to the human thigh bone.
What is the femur?
This ancient code of laws from Mesopotamia is famous for the principle of "an eye for an eye."
What is the Code of Hammurabi?