Math
To find this statistical value from a list of data, you add all the numbers together and divide by the total count.
What is the mean (or average)?
During the water cycle, what process occurs when water vapor in the atmosphere cools and turns back into liquid water, forming clouds?
What is condensation?
Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, this historic document stated that the thirteen American colonies were free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This punctuation mark is used to link two independent clauses that are closely related in thought without using a coordinating conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This error occurs when a sentence contains multiple independent clauses joined together without any punctuation or coordinating conjunctions.
What is a run-on sentence (or fused sentence)?
In the algebraic equation y = mx + b, the letter m represents this property of a line.
What is the slope?
This fundamental scientific law states that in a closed system, matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another.
What is Law of Conservation of Mass?
This is the specific power of the Executive Branch to reject or refuse to sign a bill passed by Congress, preventing it from automatically becoming a law.
What is a veto?
This literary term describes a brief, straightforward retelling of the most critical elements and main ideas of a reading passage.
What is a summary?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like "there," "their," and "they're," are known by this linguistic term.
What are homophones?
If a shirt originally costs $40 and is on sale for 25% off, this is the total dollar amount you will save.
Which cell organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell" because it generates most of the chemical energy needed to power the cell's biochemical reactions?
What is the Mitochondria.
Issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, this 1863 presidential proclamation declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation? [1]
This type of figurative language makes a direct comparison between two unlike objects by stating that one thing is another, without using the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
In writing, words like "however," "therefore," and "meanwhile" belong to this category used to smoothly link different ideas or paragraphs.
What are transition words (or conjunctive adverbs)?
This geometric formula, V = s³, is used to find this specific measurement of a cube.
What is volume?
Which term refers to the resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion, including changes to its speed and direction?
What is Inertia?
This massive 1803 land deal between the United States and France doubled the geographic size of the young American nation for a price of $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Worth roughly 20% of your overall RLA score, this specific section requires you to read two texts, analyze their arguments, and write a detailed essay.
What is the Extended Response
Choose the sentence with the correct punctuation.
This is the value of x when solving the linear equation 3x - 7 = 14.
What is 7?
This double-helix structure holds the genetic instructions for the development, functioning, and reproduction of all known living organisms.
What is DNA?
In economic charts, this two-word term describes a prolonged period of severe economic downturn, famously marked by the stock market crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
This is the underlying message, moral, or big idea that an author wants the reader to take away from a fictional story.
What is the theme?
Identify the sentence that uses the correct subject-verb agreement.