Math / Latin
This is an acronym for remembering the Order of Operations in mathematics.
P.E.M.D.A.S. (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally - or something similar.)
This element makes up the majority of the air we inhale and exhale.
What is nitrogen?
These letters represent the four basic categorical propositions.
What are A, E, I, and O? (May be arranged in any order.)
This document contains seven (7) articles and twenty-seven (27) amendments.
What is The United States Constitution?
This main character in the Sign of the Beaver teaches a colonizing teen how to hunt, fish, and track through the forest.
Who is Attean?
These Latin terms correspond with the uses of nouns in English sentences: subject, possessive, indirect object, direct object, and object of the preposition.
What are (Latin cases:) nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative?
The cause of the thermometer to cool down when a moist cotton ball was wrapped around its base.
What is evaporation?
In a team policy debate, this document is prepared ahead of time.
What is the 1AC? (What is the 1st Affirmative Constructive?)
A document drafted by Thomas Jefferson as an official statement for separating from British rule ratified on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Buck is taken from his comfortable home in California to the cold harsh Klondike region of Canada because men had discovered this.
What is gold?
A polygon having all equal sides and equal interior angles such as a triangle, square or rectangle.
What is a regular polygon?
The ozone layer is located in this region of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere?
The four different kinds of opposing relationships between categorical statements are these.
What are contradictory(ies), contrary(ies), subcontrary(ies), and subaltern(s)?
As an American spy during the Revolutionary War, at his execution by hanging, he was quoted saying, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Who was/is Nathan Hale?
The story of Johnny Tremain and the story of Henry Fleming are centered around these two historical events of American History.
What are the Revolutionary War and Civil War?
The Latin sentence below translates into English to mean this. (Note: macrons missing in spelling)
Et milites et nautae propter belli pericula orant.
On account of the dangers of war, both soldiers and sailors pray. (From: Exercise 111, Henle Latin 1)
or
Both soldiers and sailors pray on account of the dangers of war.
The atmospheric force that causes an aluminum can that is filled with hot air to collapse when placed upside down into a bowl of ice water.
What is barometric pressure?
Significance, Inherency, Topicality, and Solvency are considered the four _______ ________ of an affirmative case.
What are stock issues?
Written by the fifth president of the United States, during his 2nd term in office, this speech to Congress on December 2, 1823, established a foreign policy against further European colonization of Latin America and land south of the Bering Strait.
What was/is "The Monroe Doctrine"?
Clauses such as, "I came, I saw, I conquered," and a series of terms such as run, jump, and play are examples of this elocution element.
What is Parallelism? (What are Parallelism I and II?)
The ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter used to measure area and volume.
What is Pi?
This will not cool you down when the humidity is 100%.
What is sweating?
According to this diagram, the term chair has two notes: a non-living, material substance.
What is The Porphyrian Tree?
In a speech given June 16, 1858, at the Illinois Republican Convention, this leader shared, "I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."
Who was/is Abraham Lincoln?
Invention, Arrangement, and Elocution are considered the solutions to these three problems writers face.
What are "what to say/write", "how to organize it", and "how to say/write it?"