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100
In the equation y = mx + b, this variable represents the y-intercept.

What is b?

100

This is the chemical formula for table salt.

What is NaCl?

100

This is a comparison between two things that does not use the words "like" or "as."

What is a metaphor?

100

This 1803 land deal between the U.S. and France doubled the size of the United States.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

100
Mr. McAlley lives in the state of.

What is New York?

200

This is the square root of 144.

What is 12?

200

These are the three subatomic particles that make up an atom.

What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?

200

This is the term for a hint or clue given by the author about what will happen later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

200

This system was designed to ensure that no one branch of the U.S. government becomes too powerful.

What are checks and balances?

200
Mr. McAlley received his master's degree from.

What is Quinnipiac University?

300

This formula, A = (pi)r2, is used to calculate this property of a circle.

What is the Area?

300

This is the green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.

What is chlorophyll?

300

In a plot diagram, this is the turning point or the moment of highest tension in the story.

What is the climax?

300

The "surprise" attack on this U.S. naval base on December 7, 1941, led to the U.S. entry into WWII.

What is Pearl Harbor?

300
Mr. McAlley plays this sport every Tuesday night.

What is soccer?

400

To factor the expression x2 - 25, you would write it as (x - 5) times this.

What is (x+5)?

400

This law of physics states that an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an outside force.

What is Newton's First Law (Inertia)?

400

This is the term for giving human characteristics to non-human objects or animals.

What is personification?

400

This 19th-century belief held that the United States was destined to expand across the entire North American continent.

What is Manifest Destiny?

400

Mr. McAlley teaches Algebra 2 and two other classes, those are.

What is Calculus and Algebra 1?

500

In a right triangle, this trigonometric ratio is defined as the length of the opposite side divided by the hypotenuse.

What is Sine?

500

On the pH scale, a solution with a value of 2 would be considered strongly this.

What is acidic?

500

This Greek term refers to an appeal to the audience's emotions in persuasive writing or speaking.

What is Pathos?

500

This amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment?

500

Mr. McAlley was born in the year.

What is 2002?