Math
The expression (x+3)(x-3) simplifies to what?
x2-9
4x points
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
This layer of the Earth lies beneath the crust.
Mantle
5x points
This war was fought between the North and South regions of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
Civil War
This country is shaped like a boot and located in southern Europe.
x2 points
This is the distance around a circle.
Circumference
You use this punctuation mark to separate items in a list.
Comma
2x points
This is the chemical symbol for water.
H20
This city was famously destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D.
Pompeii
This river is the longest in the United States.
Missouri River
This is the term for a polynomial with exactly two terms.
Binomial
This term describes the main idea or argument in an essay, usually found in the introduction.
Thesis statement
Humans have this many chromosomes in each body cell.
46
3x points
This English document, signed in 1215, limited the powers of the king.
Magna Carta
3x points
This is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Equator
A polygon with four equal sides and four right angles is called this.
Square
2x points
This is the term for the writer’s attitude toward the subject, such as serious, humorous, or sarcastic.
Tone
This is the smallest unit of an element.
Atom
This famous speech by Abraham Lincoln begins with “Four score and seven years ago…”
Gettysburg Address
This desert is the largest in the world.
Sahara Desert
If you roll a standard 6-sided die, the probability of rolling a 4 is this.
1/6
This word means “calm and unbothered by stress.”
Serene
2x points
This part of the cell controls its activities and contains DNA.
Nucleus
2x points
This philosopher was the student of Plato and the tutor of Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
2x points
This African city is the capital of Egypt.
Cairo