Astronomy and Space
This planet has the shortest year in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
The point of view using “I” is called this.
What is first-person narration?
This layer of Earth is liquid and generates the magnetic field.
What is the outer core?
This branch interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
He proposed evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This event occurs when the Moon blocks the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
A comparison without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
This cycle moves water through evaporation and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He introduced the concept of inertia.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This term describes the path a planet follows around a star.
What is an orbit?
This literary device gives human traits to objects.
What is personification?
This boundary separates tectonic plates.
What is a fault line?
This principle prevents one branch from gaining too much power.
What is checks and balances?
He developed a system for classifying living organisms using genus and species.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
This is the boundary where Earth’s atmosphere fades into space.
What is the Kármán line?
The struggle between a character and society is this type of conflict.
What is external conflict?
This scale measures earthquake strength.
What is the Richter scale?
This type of government is ruled by elected representatives.
What is a republic?
This scientist explained gravity as spacetime curvature.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This theory explains the origin of the universe.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
A word that imitates a sound, like “buzz.”
What is onomatopoeia?
This gas is most responsible for the greenhouse effect.
What is carbon dioxide?
This document outlines citizens’ rights in the U.S.
What is the Bill of Rights?
She discovered radioactivity with her husband.
Who is Marie Curie?