English
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies’ independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell"
What is the Mitochondria?
In y=mx+b, the m stands for...
What is the slope?
Hillgrove's mission statement
Deliberate success for ALL students.
This part of speech shows action or a state of being
What is a verb?
The three branches of government
Executive, Legislative, Judicial
The part of the water cycle where water vapor turns into water droplets
What is condensation?
In this quadrant lies the coordinate (1,-4)
What is quadrant 4?
When was Hillgrove established?
2006
The main character in a story is called this.
What is the protagonist?
This war was fought between the North and the South in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
What is the Civil War?
This 2x2 grid is used by biologists to predict the probability of an offspring having a particular genotype.
What is a Punnett Square?
What does P.E.M.D.A.S stand for? (NOT please excuse my dear aunt sally)
What is
P: Parentheses
E: Exponents
M: Multiplication
D: Division
A: Addition
S: Subtraction
What athletic program has won the most state championships?
NJROTC
What Shakespeare play follows two young "star-crossed lovers" from feuding families (the Montagues and Capulets)?
What is Romeo and Juliet
This system of government, allows citizens to vote directly on laws.
What is a democracy?
This is the process by which a cell divides into two identical daughter cells, used for growth and repair.
What is Mitosis?
This famous formula is used to find the missing side of a right triangle when you know the lengths of the other two sides.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
The land wasn't originally donated to Hillgrove, where was the land originally donated to?
Young Harris College
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Battle is associated with "the shot heard around the world"
What are Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This person created the theory of survival of the fittest
Who is Herbert Spencer?
The average of a series of numbers is the...
What is the mean?
Hillgrove's vision (the longer version of the mission statement)
Soaring towards deliberate success in Academics, Arts, and Athletic achievement.