This branch includes the President, Vice President, and his/her cabinet members
What is the Executive Branch?
100
The passing of traits, or characteristics, from parent to offspring.
What is Heredity?
100
A figure of speech in which there is a comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile?
100
This country was once home to the Incan Empire. You can learn a great deal about this culture by visiting Machu Picchu and other sites.
What is Peru?
100
This state's capital is Sacramento
What is California?
200
This branch has the power to interpret and uphold the law as according to the US Constitution
What is the Judicial Branch?
200
The idea that organisms that are best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass their traits to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
200
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not meant to be literal.
What is a metaphor?
200
Formerly run by a communist government, this country has dealt with a great deal of controversy in recent times due to alleged involvement and tampering with the 2016 US election.
What is Russia?
200
This state's capital is Honolulu.
What is Hawaii?
300
This branch has the power to declare war and establish taxes.
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
Materials that are found in nature and are used up much faster than than the time required to make them.
What are nonrenewable resources?
300
A figure of speech in which the author gives human characteristics and qualities to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
300
As of 2016, this country is the most populated of all countries and has become an economic powerhouse within recent decades.
What is China?
300
This state's capital is Olympia.
What is Washington?
400
This branch includes both the Senate and House of Representatives. Together, we refer to these entities as this term.
What is Congress?
400
Organisms that break down dead or decaying plant and animal material
What are decomposers?
400
A figure of speech that involves extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
400
The second most populated country as of 2016, this country has many long practiced traditions and customs, largely related to its Hindu concentration.
What is India?
500
This system of voting determines our president and vice president for the Executive Branch.
What is the Electoral College?
500
A symbiotic relationship that benefits both organisms involved.
What is mutualism?
500
A word that sounds like the sound that it is describing.
What is an Onomatopoeia?
500
Currently a country involved in a very serious civil war. As of 2016, more than 11 million people have been killed or forced to flee as refugees seeking peace and safety.