SCIENCE
Often called the "powerhouse of the cell," this organelle is responsible for generating most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
What is the Mitochondria?
To solve a complex equation, you follow the Order of Operations, often remembered by this 6-letter acronym starting with P.
What is PEMDAS?
Signed in 1776, this document declared the thirteen American colonies free from British rule and famously states that "all men are created equal."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Bordering California to the west, this ocean is the largest and deepest on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
"She is as brave as a lion" is an example of this figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
Plants use this process to convert light energy into chemical energy, turning carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen.
What is Photosynthesis?
Used to find the missing side of a right triangle, the theorem a2 + b2 = c2 is named after this ancient Greek philosopher.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This massive migration event began in 1848 but is named after the year 1849, when thousands of people rushed to California to strike it rich.
What is the Gold Rush?
This European country is easy to spot on a map because it is shaped like a high-heeled boot kicking the island of Sicily.
What is Italy?
Often read in junior year, this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel features a mysterious millionaire who throws lavish parties in West Egg to win back Daisy Buchanan.
What is The Great Gatsby?
ccording to Newton's Third Law of Motion, for every action, there is an equal and opposite one of these.
What is a Reaction?
In the linear equation y = mx + b, the variable m represents this, which is often defined as "rise over run."
What is the Slope?
This period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted from 1947 to 1991 and included the Space Race and the Red Scare.
What is the Cold War?
Living in California, you should know that this tectonic boundary runs roughly 800 miles through the state and is responsible for many of our earthquakes.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This Japanese poetic form consists of three phrases with a 5, 7, 5 syllable structure.
What is a Haiku?
On the pH scale, pure water is a 7 (neutral), while lemon juice is acidic, meaning it has a pH value that is this (higher or lower?).
What is Lower (or Low)?
If you need to find the roots of a parabola ax2+ bx + c = 0 and you can't factor it, you have to use this formula.
What is the Quadratic Formula?
Passed in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution finally granted this specific group of citizens the right to vote.
Who are Women?
Flowing through South America, this river carries more water by volume than any other river in the world and runs through a massive rainforest.
What is the Amazon River?
This literary device involves using words that imitate the sounds they describe, such as "buzz," "sizzle," or "boom."
What is Onomatopoeia?
Rosalind Franklin and Watson & Crick are credited with discovering that DNA is shaped like this twisted ladder structure.
What is a Double Helix?
In trigonometry, the mnemonic SOH CAH TOA helps you remember that this specific function is equal to the Opposite side divided by the Hypotenuse.
What is Sine (or Sin)?
This treaty, signed in France in 1919, officially ended World War I but imposed such harsh penalties on Germany that it arguably set the stage for World War II.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
While the Equator divides the North and South, this imaginary line running through Greenwich, England, divides the East and West hemispheres at 0° longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets in this specific rhythmic meter, which consists of ten syllables per line, alternating between unstressed and stressed beats (da-DUM da-DUM).
What is Iambic Pentameter?