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100

What is the measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance?

What is temperature?

100

This part of speech is used to describe or modify a noun.

What is an adjective?

100

This is the biological process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food.

What is photosynthesis?

100

This physical region of Georgia covers the largest land area in the southern half of the state and is known for its agricultural production.

What is the Coastal Plain?

100

Which GA region is the most populated and contains Atlanta?

What is Piedmont?

200

Which subatomic particle has a positive charge?

What is a proton?

200

The phrase "The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of this literary device.

What is personification?

200

Protons and neutrons are found inside this dense, central part of an atom.

What is the nucleus?

200

This man, acting on behalf of King George II, was the primary founder of the Georgia colony in 1733.

Who is James Oglethorpe?

200

Who was the primary founder of the Georgia colony?

Who is James Oglethorpe?

300

Newton’s 1st Law is often referred to as the Law of what?

What is Inertia?

300

This is the central message, moral, or life lesson that an author wants the reader to take away from a story.

What is the theme?

300

This type of rock is formed deep underground when existing rocks are subjected to intense heat and pressure.

What is metamorphic rock?

300

This Native American civilization lived in Georgia before European contact and is famous for building large earthen mounds, such as those at Etowah and Ocmulgee.

Who are the Mississippian Indians?

300

Which branch of GA government is the General Assembly part of?

What is Legislative?

400

In the Periodic Table, what are the vertical columns called?

What is Groups?

400

This is the specific term for a type of sentence that asks a direct question.

What is an interrogative sentence?

400

This cell organelle is responsible for generating most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and is often called the "powerhouse" of the cell.

What is the mitochondria?

400

These are the three branches of Georgia's state government, mirroring the federal government structure.

What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?

400

What are the three principles found on the Georgia State Seal?

What are Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation?

500

Energy stored due to an object's position is called...?

What is Potential Energy?

500

In a story's plot, this is the turning point of the narrative and the moment of highest tension.

What is the climax?

500

According to Newton's First Law of Motion, an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by this.

What is an unbalanced (or outside) force?

500

This controversial 1795 land scandal involved Georgia legislators taking bribes to sell millions of acres of western land for pennies an acre.

What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?

500

Who was the first Georgian to be elected President of the USA?  

Who is Jimmy Carter?