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300

It's called the powerhouse of a cell.

What is the Mitochondria?

300

We often abbreviate this reading practice with the following: SSR

What is sustained silent reading?

300

This is any number greater than 1 that cannot be evenly divided by any number besides itself.

What is a prime number?

300

This war was fought over a period of four years: (1861–65).

What is the Civil War?

300

Long considered our ninth planet, the International Astronomical Union reclassified it as a dwarf planet in 2006. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft first explored it up close, flying by it and its moons in 2015.

What is Pluto?

600
This is the theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle.


What is Plate Tectonics?

600

When you are blamed for something you did not do, you may be referred to as this four-legged animal (not related to sheep). 

What is a scapegoat?

600

This is the appearance of a graphed line when the slope is negative.

What is a downward sloping line, when read from left to right?

600

After Smith returned to England in late 1609, more than 100 settlers died in this town, the first successful English colony in the New World during what has come to be called “The Starving Time.”

What is Jamestown?

600

As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before serving as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.

Who is Jefferson Davis?

900

These two types of factors make up ecosystems. One  is what we call something that is living and the other is what we call something that is non-living.

What is a biotic factor and an abiotic factor?

900

This is a type of writing intended to convince the reader of an opinion.

What is persuasive writing?

900

The slope and y interecept for the following equation

y=3x - 7

The slope, or "m" is 3 

The y intercept, or "b" is -7

900

The Constitution of the United States divides the federal government into these three branches.

What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?

900

Although not a traditional band instrument, the bells and xylophone are modeled after this instrument with 88 keys (the chosen instrument of singers such as John Legend, Elton John, Sara Bareilles, and Billy Joel).

What is a piano?

1200

This is the primary gas in Earth's atmosphere.

What is nitrogen?

1200

This is a work of literature based on on someone's life.

What is a biography?

1200

This is the result of multiplying a geometrical shape by a scale factor of either greater than or less than 1.

What is a dilation?

1200

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

What is the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution?

1200

About 95% of all life on Earth lives in this part of the planet's biosphere, although it represents roughly 70% of Earth's surface.

What is the ocean?

1500

This rock formation comes after igneous.

What is metamorphic rock?

1500

These are literary terms to describe logic, emotion, and credibility in the characters or writing of a story. 

logos = logic

pathos = emotion

ethos = credibility

1500

This is a method for expressing a given quantity as a number having significant digits necessary for a specified degree of accuracy, multiplied by 10 to the appropriate power.

What is scientific notation?

1500

Many churches experienced a great increase in membership between 1795 and 1835 in the United States during this period of religious revival when meetings were held in small towns and large cities throughout the country, and the unique frontier institution known as the camp meeting began.

What is the Second Great Awakening?

1500

This formula is a formalization of the Pythagorean Theorem using x and y coordinates. In other words, it is basically the same thing in a different context.

What is the distance formula?