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Mathematics
World Geography
Literature and Writing
Native People of North America
Weird Science
100
Populations of organisms grow at different rates. A population of bacteria that doubles every second is said to have _____ growth.
What is exponential growth?
100
This continent is the only continent of the Eastern Hemisphere that is not divided. It's also both a continent and country.
What is Australia?
100
This literary device is an exaggeration. For example, "This test took forever and a day to finish."
What is hyperbole?
100
This confederacy of tribes is located in the northeastern region of America and is comprised of the Six Nations: Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora.
Who are the Iroquois?
100
This acronym stands for the double helix molecule of genetic material also known as deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA?
200
This type of notation makes it easier to write numbers that contain many digits, whether the numbers are very large or very small.
What is scientific notation?
200
The _____ Hemisphere includes more than 60% percentage of the world's land.
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
200
This literary device gives human traits or actions to something that is not human. For example, "The rock face offered a crooked smile as the sun crossed it's crevices."
What is personification?
200
These long rectangular buildings were built with wood frames and were covered in bark.
What are longhouses?
200
This type of virus can cause harm, illness, and even death.
What is a pathogenic virus?
300
When a number is raised to the 2nd power it is said to be "squared." When a number is raised to the 3rd power, it is said to be _____.
What is cubed?
300
The form of government in which people elect leaders and rule by majority.
What is a democracy?
300
This literary device is used when comparing two things, and often uses "like" or "as". For example, "Her eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky."
What is a simile?
300
The Sioux tribes were nomadic because they followed these animals.
What are buffalo? *Also accepted: What are bison?
300
The signs and symptoms of this deadly viral illness originating in the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia typically appear between two days and three weeks after contracting the virus include fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches.
What is Ebola?
400
Mathematicians study the relationship between two or more of these, usually by graphing them. Examples could be time, temperature, population, weight, etc. They are often represented with the letters "x" and "y".
What are variables?
400
A set of directions used to express a more specific location.
What are intermediate directions?
400
This is the attitude the author or speaker demonstrates toward a subject or topic. Sometimes it is described as the way a scene "feels". For example can be ominous or uplifting, comical or hostile.
What is tone?
400
Europeans were responsible for introducing this domesticated animal to the native people of North America, which became essential to hunting and travel.
What is the horse?
400
This illness, caused by abnormal cell division that spreads to other parts of the body, is not contagious. However, genetic markers of this illness can pass from parent to child.
What is cancer?
500
If a dinner bill is $50 and you wish to leave a 16% tip, what is your total bill?
What is $58.00?
500
A term describing a country that generally has less productive economics and a lower quality of life.
What is a developing country? *Also acceptable: What is a third world country?
500
These are words located before and after an unknown word that help you to understand the meaning of the unknown word.
What are context clues?
500
This famous Lakota chief and medicine man won a major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
Who was Sitting Bull?
500
This building block of life connects with others like it to form tissue. It is made up of organelles.
What is a cell?