States and Capitals
Michigan.
What is Lansing?
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The brain of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
The most important line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
These earthquake waves cause the most damage.
What are surface waves?
Utah.
What is Salt Lake City?
This was the largest building in Ancient India.
What is the Great Bath?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is mitochondria?
This movement of the Earth takes about 24 hours.
What is a rotation?
An attempt to explain an observed phenomenon that can be tested in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Wyoming.
What is Cheyenne?
Built by Khufu, this was the tallest building in the world for over 1,000 years.
What is the Great Pyramid at Giza?
The protective outer covering of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
A period of one thousand years.
What is a millennium?
This leader of the Mongols has over six million direct descendants alive today.
Who is Genghis Khan?
Iowa.
What is Des Moines?
This Chinese philosopher espoused the idea of "filial piety," or strong values of respect within the family.
Who is Confucius (Kong Fuzi)?
In plant cells, this green organelle -in conjunction with chlorophyll- is used to facilitate photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
The movement of water from the surface of the Earth to the air and back again.
What is the water cycle?
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A strip of land surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
Mississippi.
What is Jackson?
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The Ancient Chinese believed the gods showed favor toward a good emperor, known as this.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Plant cells are surrounded by this rigid outer covering that limits their ability to move.
What is the cell wall?
A system of government in which a king or queen is at the top.
What is a monarchy?
Siddhartha Gautama was given this title, meaning "enlightened one."
What is Buddha?