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100

Any change in an object's velocity (speeding up or slowing down).

What is acceleration?

100

People moving into a country legally.

What is immigration?

100

Another name for average and how to find it.

What is mean? What is add all items and divide by the number of items? OR What is hit DATA then each number followed by enter the GREEN 2nd button, then data again to get STAT, then enter.  #2 selection is the mean?

100

People, places, or things that are not capitalized and SPECIFIC people, places, or things that are capitalized.

What are common and proper nouns?

100

The chemical formulas for water and carbon dioxide.

What are H2O and C02?

200

An envelope of gases that surrounds a planet.  Our layers are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere and exosphere.

What is the atmosphere?

200

People moving out of a country.

What is emigration?

200

The likelihood of an outcome occurring and how to find it.

What is probability? Add all items to find the denominator (bottom of the fraction) then make the numerator (top of the fraction) whatever they are asking about?


200

Words used to modify nouns or pronouns that answer questions like which one? What kind? How many? What color?

What are adjectives?

200

Seven stars that form a large ladle in the sky.

What is the Big Dipper?

300

The process of a "parent" cell dividing into two identical "daughter" cells. 

What is cell division or mitosis?

300

A territory settled by people from a distant country who are still subject to that country's government. Hint: Our early settlers relationship to England.

What is a colony?

300

The name of the formula used to find the missing side of a right triangle and the formula itself for double the points.

What is the Pythagorean Theorem and a2 =b2=c2?

300

The little words that define the amount of something (the, a, an). Also the name of something you'd read in a newspaper.

What is an article?

300

A group of flamingos.

What is a flamboyance?

400

The body's ability to adjust to external changes while maintaining a STABLE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT.

What is homeostasis?

400

The legally enforced separation of races in this system which existed in South Africa in the 20th century. Double your money if you also know who ended this practice.

What is Apartheid? Who is Nelson Mandela?

400

The sum of 2 and a number is at most 12.

What is 2 + x is less than or equal to 12? (You would use the less than or equal sign in you inequality).

400

These generally lead into your main point when writing and essay and improve the quality of the sentence while adding information for the reader to better understand when or where things took place.

Ex. Before he arrived, John had stopped for coffee.

While answering a text, Joe crashed his car.

What is a prepositional phrase?


400

The distance from the Earth to the sun.

What is 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers?

500

The evolutionary process whereby organisms that are better ADAPTED to their environment tend to SURVIVE AND PRODUCE OFFSPRING.

What is natural selection? (Darwin)

500

Those that try to overthrow a strong central political authority.

Who are anarchists?

500

The "tricks" to easily solve multiplication and division problems with exponents when the bases are the same.

What is add the exponents for multiplication and subtract the exponents for division?

500

Things that the author does not say directly, but can be assumed from what the author did say.

What is an inference or implication?

500

The best selling book of all time and the man that made that possible by inventing the printing press.

What is The Bible and who is Johannes Guttenberg? (Germany, 1455)