Base metric units called grams, meters, and liters measure these three physical properties of matter...
What are mass, length, and capacity?
100
We are two different strategies you can use when completing the reading portion of the STAAR test.
What are RIPE or PURSE?
100
Which tool can I use to solve all sorts of problems involving measurement on the STAAR test?
What is the STAAR mathematics chart?
100
We are three inventions that made World War I very deadly for unexperienced soldiers.
What are the airplane, the machine gun, and poisonous gas?
100
I was assassinated in Sarajevo during a military parade. My death is one of the causes of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
200
This dangerous landform occurs when magma under the Earth's surface explodes towards the surface of the air, pushing lava, cinders, and smoke into the air.
What is a volcano?
200
When you have used all your strategies and cannot prove your answer, you should do this if you are stuck while taking the STAAR test.
What is "pick your first guess as your answer", "go with your first guess", etc. ?
200
I am the 5 steps used to solve a division problem.
What is 1) Divide 2) Multiply 3) Subtract 4) Bring Down 5) Check for remainder?
200
I am the leader of the Central Powers.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
200
I was president during World War I. I urged citizens of the United States not to take sides in the war. I encouraged England and France to go easy on Germany after World War I. They didn't listen...making Germany responsible for repaying war reparations and debts it was unable to pay.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
I am the difference between a learned trait and an inherited trait.
What is "being taught how to do something vs. being born with the ability to do something"?
300
We are the four signs that a clause is a complete sentence.
What are initial capital letters, subject, predicate, and end punctuation?
300
I am the part of a pictograph that tells you what different picture symbols stand for.
What is the key?
300
We are long, dirty, ditches full of soldiers built as a defensive measure against the opposing side. Many people died inside of us because of bombs, disease, and malnutrition.
What are trenches?
300
I was sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. 128 Americans were killed when I sank to the bottom of the ocean.
What is the British passenger ship "Lusitania"?
400
I am a type of landform that is steep on its sides, rises up towards the sky like a mountain, but is flat on the top like a table.
What is a plateau or mesa?
400
I am the minimum number of sentences a complete paragraph contains.
What is 5?
400
I am a graph that uses dots on a grid and lines connecting these dots to show data.
What is a line graph?
400
We are the reasons why Germany would rebel against the rules set up by the Allied Powers and rebuild its military machine in preparation for World War II.
What is poor treatment and attempting to collect large war reparations?
400
Some people say I was caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the sinking of the Lusitania by Germany. Other people believe I am the result of secret treaties and a political "powder keg". 200,000 Texans served during my time. 5,000 sacrified their lives. I am the most important event in history between 1914 and 1918.
What is World War I?
500
I am changes that occur over a long period of time as an animal reacts to differences in its environment.
What are adapatations?
500
I am the word that describes a type of story. Some of these types of stories include science fiction, horror, literary fiction, biography, autobiography, historical fiction, mystery...
What is "genre"?
500
Opposite of a composite number, I am number that cannot be broken down into smaller groups of numbers evenly. 1, 3, 5, and 7 are good examples of this type of number.
What is a prime number?
500
I am a famous World War I hero and flew a red Fokker airplane until I was shot down by a South African machinegunner late in the war. My real name is Manfred Von Richtoften.
Who is the Red Baron?
500
We are the Central Powers. Name the Allied Powers for twice the money.
Who are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire? Who are Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States?