Science Essentials
This molecule is known as the “universal solvent” because it dissolves more substances than any other.
What is water?
This is the term for a number that is not positive or negative—it’s right in the middle.
What is zero?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This term describes money you earn before taxes and deductions.
What is gross income?
This ancient civilization built pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs.
What is Ancient Egypt?
These tiny structures inside cells are the “powerhouses” that produce energy.
What are mitochondria?
This average is found by adding numbers and dividing by how many numbers there are.
What is the mean?
This country has the largest population in the world.
What is India?
This essential skill helps you understand where your money is going each month.
What is budgeting?
This global conflict lasted from 1939 to 1945.
What is World War II?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?
A recipe calls for 500 mL of water, but your measuring cup only shows cups. If 1 cup = 250 mL, how many cups do you need?
What is 2 cups?
This line of latitude divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This long‑term financial concept means your money grows by earning interest on both the principal and previous interest.
What is compound interest?
This movement in the 1950s–60s fought to end racial segregation and secure equal rights.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This subatomic particle determines an element’s identity because its number never changes.
What is the proton?
You earn $2,000 from a part‑time job in one month. If 12% of your income goes to taxes and 6% goes to other deductions, how much money do you take home after all deductions?
What is $1,640?
This landform is created when two tectonic plates collide and push upwards.
What is a mountain range?
This important workplace skill involves politely expressing your needs or boundaries without being aggressive or passive.
What is assertive communication?
This ancient trade route connected Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, allowing silk, spices, and ideas to travel thousands of kilometers.
What is the Silk Road?
This type of electromagnetic wave has the shortest wavelength and the highest energy.
What are gamma rays?
You’re buying a laptop listed at $1,200, but it goes on sale for 25% off. After the discount, a 12% tax is added. What is the final price you pay?
What is $1,008?
This ocean current, one of the strongest on Earth, warms Western Europe by carrying warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This insurance term refers to the amount you must pay out‑of‑pocket before your insurance company starts covering costs.
What is a deductible?
This historic agreement, signed in 1867, united several British colonies into one nation and is considered the birth of modern Canada.
What is the Confederation (or the British North America Act)?