Science
ELA I
ELA II
Video Games
100

This concept is why we do not float on Earth

gravity

100

This is when 2 words have opposite definitions.

 antonym

100

What story element is what is happening in the story (beginning, middle, end).

The plot.

100

Originally given the Japanese title “Puckman”, what 1980s arcade game was inducted into the Guinness Book of Records as the "Most Successful Coin-Operated Game" in 2005?

Packman

200

What is the center of the Earth? 

the core

200

Textual evidence + Background Knowledge = ??

Inference

200

What story element tells when and where the action takes place?

The setting.

200

Making his debut in 1990's "Super Mario World," what is the name of the enemy-eating, egg-throwing green dinosaur who serves as a sidekick to Mario and Luigi in the Mario franchise?

Yoshi

300

Name the three closest planets to the sun. 

Mercury, Venus, Earth

300

What is the suffix of the words Otherwise, Likewise, Clockwise and Crosswise

-wise

300

What punctuation is used in a contraction and helps show ownership?

An apostrophe 

300

Which video game console released in 2006 pioneered the use of motion controls in its gameplay?

 

Nintendo Wii

400

What elements are represented by the chemical formula H2O?

Hydrogen and Oxygen

400

What Soc is killed in The Outsiders?

Bob

400

I believe that if you lower taxes so that people can keep more of the money they earn, it will be an incentive for them to work harder.

What is the meaning of “incentive”? __________.

a. a reason to do something

b. a small amount of money

c. a tax

d. a good job

a. a reason to do something

400

What North Carolina-based video game company created the 2018 breakout hit "Fortnite"?

Epic Games

500

This is the process called when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy 

photosynthesis

500

the problem being faced in the story

conflict

500

Which belongs in the sentence?

A family on our street must be moving because _________________ house is for sale.

(they're, their, there)

Their

500

Pocket, Light, Color, and Advance were all styles or variants of what video game hardware system?

Game Boy

600

Solar power gets its energy from this source.

The sun.

600

The most important idea in a passage.

main idea

600

An adjective that describes a character.

A Character Trait.

600

What 2009 game, developed by Mojang, is an open sandbox in which players often build structures and battle creepers, zombies, and other "mobs"?

Minecraft

700

What is it called when snow crystals form from water vapor when it changes from a gas directly into a solid?

Deposition

700

Give an example of a simile.

Answers may vary.

 (comparing 2 things that are not alike using words like or as)

700

What is the message the author is trying to communicate to the reader?

Theme

700

The first Star Wars video game, made for the Atari 2600, was based on which film in the original trilogy?

The Empire Strikes Back

800

When animals move to warmer areas in the winter it is known as what?

Migration

800

What is personification? 

Giving human characteristics to things that are not human

800

Going back in the text and finding information to support what you are saying is finding what?

Text Evidence

800

What Nintendo console was codenamed NX while under development and featured controllers called "Joy-Cons" upon release?

Nintendo Switch