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The precious metal used in the production of microchips.
What is gold?
The greatest common factor for the numbers 24 and 40.
What is 8?
This word from the Italian for "alone" designates a musical piece played or sung by one person.
This term describes the part of the skull that encloses the brain. It is also a fun board game.
What is the cranium?
The demand for goods and services is greater than the availability of the good or service.
What is a shortage?
This name is given to a polynomial that is the sum of two terms.
What is binomial?
This word identifies a set of three plays, novels, or operas.
This pair of organs filter out waste products from the blood and maintain the body's salt and water balance.
What are the kidneys?
What is Opportunity Cost?
This word meaning "crude oil" completes the full name of OPEC, the Organization of __________ Exporting Countries.
What is petroleum?
This is the percentage equivalent of 7/20.
What is 35%?
This poetic device features the repetition of an initial sound in phrases such as "A telling tale of terror".
What is alliteration?
This disease develops if the pancreas secretes too little insulin.
What is diabetes?
A reason or reward that motivates people to behave or do something in a certain way.
What is an incentive?
The number of hydrogen atoms in 3 molecules of water?
What is 6?
The lowest common denominator of the fractions 3/5, 7/8, and 9/10.
What is 40?
Ms. DiCaro's favorite book, this novel by Charles Dickens includes the opening line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
The tendon at the back of the leg connects the bone of the heel to the muscles of the calf. It is named for the Greek hero of the Trojan War.
What is the Achilles' tendon?
The total production value of a country is divided by the number of people living in that country.
What is GDP per capita?
The technology used in ships in which ultrasonic waves are used to map the ocean floor.
What is sonar?
What are 12 degrees (complement) and 102 degrees (supplement)?
The mythological son who escaped from a labyrinth by tying feathers joined with wax to his arms and flying away.
Who is Icarus?
The hardest substance produced by animal bodies that makes up the smooth, hard, outer layer of the teeth.
What is the enamel?
What are sanctions?