Heat travels in 3 ways: C_______, R________, and C_______. Name 2 out of the 3 ways.
Conduction, convection, and radiation.
100
Name 2 out of the 3 temperature scales. (A temperature is the way we measure temperature.)
Celsius, Farenheit, and Kelvin
100
In "Introduction to Poetry" Who is the person in the poem speaking to?
Students of poetry.
100
What is the area of a 5 foot by 7 foot rectangle?
35 square feet.
100
What country is well-known for pyramids and pharoahs?
Egypt
200
Which is the only type of heat movement that can occur through a vacuum.
Radiation
200
What is the freezing and boiling point of water on the celcius scale?
o degrees and 100 degrees
200
In "The Summer I was sixteen", what are some clues that it takes place in the fifties or sixties?
A pool with a slide; the song title; the food mentioned; using oil to sun tan.
200
What is the perimiter of a 5 by 7 rectangle?
24 feet
200
Ancient Greece had many city-states. Name one.
Athens, Sparta, etc.
300
If something is not a good conductor, it is a good __________.
insulator
300
What are the freezing points and boiling points of water on the Farenheit scale?
32 degrees and 212 degrees.
300
Prose writing uses paragraphs to set off a series of sentences that all share a common idea. What does poetry use?
Stanzas
300
Suppose you are measuring a triangle in feet. What will the units on the answer look like?
Square feet
300
The Roman empire began in the city of Rome. In what country is Rome in?
Italy
400
The 3 most common phases on earth are S______, L_______, and g________. Which 2 of these does convection work on?
Convection works on liquids and gasses.
400
What is absolute zero?
Absolute zero is the coldest possible temperature. When things are this cold, molecules do not move at all.
400
The ending of "The Giver" is ambiguous. This means the reader can not be sure exactly what it means. Give 2 possible meanings of the ending of the Giver.
The character might have died, he might have actually found a new village, or he might have hallucinated because of starvation and stress.
400
What is the perimiter of a square with an area of 64 square meters?
32
400
What were the people who resisted the Roman Empire in Ancient England and Ireland called?
Picts
500
Why do hot gasses and liquids rise?
Because the molecules move faster. This means that fewer molecules fit into a space. As a result, the area with the fast-moving molecules is lighter.
500
On which temperature scale are negative temperatures impossible? Why?
Negative temperatures are impossible on the Kelvin scale. This is because the coldest anything can ever be is "abolute zero." On the kelvin scale, absolute zero = zero degrees.
500
What does George do to Lennie at the end of "Of Mice and Men?" Why?
George shoots Lennie. Explanations for why will vary.
500
Suppose one side of a triangle measures 3 inches. If the area is 15 square inches, and the perimeter is 20 inches, what is the measure of the other 2 sides?
One side would have to be 10, one side would have to be 7.
500
Fill in the blanks:
The ninth __________ of Rome had a statue of an animal for a standard. This animal was the __________.