Life Science
A scientist uses a microscope to see tiny living things. Those tiny living things are each called a _____.
What is a cell?
Water turns to ice when its temperature drops below 0 °C. This change is called _____.
What is freezing?
The daily rise and fall of the ocean’s edge is called the _____.
What is the tide?
The holiday celebrated each July 4 marks the signing of this historic U.S. document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The head of a city’s government is usually called the _____.
What is the mayor?
Animals eat plants or other animals to get energy, so they are called _____.
What are consumers?
A circuit will not work if there is a break in the wire because electricity needs a complete path, called a(n) _____.
What is a closed circuit?
Which planet has the most prominent ring system?
a. Mars b. Jupiter c. Saturn d. Neptune
What is c. Saturn?
He led the March on Washington in 1963 and delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
The Constitution divides the U.S. Congress into the Senate and the _____.
What is the House of Representatives?
In peas, green pods (G) are dominant over yellow pods (g). A Gg plant self‑pollinates. What fraction of its offspring should have yellow pods?
What is ¼ (25 %)*?
Granite, basalt, and obsidian all form from cooling magma, making them types of ____ rock.
What is igneous rock?
Which war was ended by the Treaty of Paris in 1783?
What was the American Revolutionary War?
A bill that passes both houses of Congress goes next to this person for signature.
Who is the President?
Which body system works with muscles to move the skeleton?
a. Endocrine b. Nervous c. Circulatory d. Digestive
What is b. Nervous?
Which electromagnetic wave has the shortest wavelength?
a. Infrared b. Radio c. X‑ray d. Microwave
What is c. X‑ray?
The Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean is famous for earthquakes and volcanoes because many tectonic plates meet there. This is evidence for what theory?
What is plate tectonics?
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the 1930s Dust Bowl migration?
a. Growth of California farm labor camps b. Bankruptcy of many Midwest farms c. An immediate end to U.S. droughts d. Increased federal aid projects
What is c. An immediate end to U.S. droughts?
Under the Constitution, powers such as issuing driver’s licenses and running public schools belong primarily to
a. the states b. the President c. the Supreme Court d. foreign governments
What is a. the states?
CRISPR gene editing allows researchers to replace a faulty DNA sequence in embryos. What term describes this technology?
Gene editing
A sample of gas is compressed so its volume is cut in half while temperature stays constant. According to Boyle’s Law, the pressure will
a. double b. stay the same c. drop to half d. be impossible to predict
What is a. double?
Scientists studying past climates drill into Greenland ice and analyze trapped air bubbles. These bubbles are best described as
a. fossils b. varves c. pollen grains d. gas inclusions
What are d. gas inclusions?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) gave broad military powers to which U.S. President during the Vietnam War?
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?