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100
The thousands place value in 73,512.
What is 3?
100
This part of speech names a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
100
All living organisms are made up of these microscopic components.
What are cells?
100
This is the ocean located between North and South America, Europe and Africa.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
This ancient civilization developed along the Nile River.
What is the Egyptian civilization?
200
In a bag, there are 3 red marbles, 4 blue marbles, 6 yellow marbles, and 2 green marbles. This is the probability that a yellow marble will be drawn from the bag.
What is 2/5 (two fifths)?
200
This punctuation mark separates items in a series.
What is a comma?
200
This is the gas believed to be primarily responsible for the "greenhouse effect" and global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
200
This ancient civilization built great cities, temples, and monuments in what are now Belize, Guatemala and Mexico (the Yucatan).
What is the Mayan civilization?
200
The circulatory system includes arteries, veins, and this muscular organ.
What is the heart?
300
Joe buys tickets to two movies for his family (including himself, his wife and two kids). The matinee film costs $6 for adults and $3 for kids. The feature film costs $9 for adults and $4.50 for kids. Joe must pay this amount.
What is $45?
300
The bunch of flowers is/are on the table. In the preceding sentence, this is the correct form of the verb 'to be.'
What is 'is'?
300
The process by which plants convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into sugar (energy).
What is photosynthesis?
300
This Venetian traveled the Silk Road to China in the late 1200s and mingled with Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
A "sentence" that fails to express a complete thought, though it may include both a subject and verb, is known as this.
What is a (sentence) fragment?
400
Joe walks 4 blocks north, turns, and walks 3 blocks east. Joe is this many blocks from his starting point.
What is 5 blocks?
400
Joe woke up he ate breakfast. Joe brushed his teeth, he went to school. The preceding are examples of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence (fused and comma-spliced)?
400
The mass of an object is 1000 grams. Its volume is 250 cubic milliliters. Therefore, its density equals this.
What is 4g/cubic ml (d=m/v)?
400
All hominids and modern humans are thought to have originated on this continent and then migrated across the globe.
What is Africa?
400
A trapezoid measures 5 feet along the bottom and 4 feet along the top. Its height is 3 feet. This is its area.
What is 13.5 square feet [1/2(b1 + b2) x h]?
500
If 2y=4x-8, then these are the values for the slope and y-intercept. (slope-intercept form: y=mx+b)
What are slope = 2; y-intercept = -4?
500
This is a poem with fourteen lines in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. It is often called an English or Shakespearean ______.
What is a sonnet?
500
The gene, or allele, that expresses for six fingers (D) is dominant. The gene that expresses for five fingers (d) is recessive. If one parent's genotype is Dd and the other's is dd, and they have four children, this is the number of six-fingered children they can expect (use a Punnett square to solve).
What is two (Dd, Dd, dd, dd)?
500
Approximately 6.6 million square miles, this is the largest country in the world.
What is Russia?
500
Complete the pattern: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, __, 49, 64, 81, 100
What is 36 (six squared or 6x6)?