Academic Pentathlon Pre

Which is NOT a theme in Chains?

• Dehumanization

• Coming of Age

• Memory

• Human Evolution

What is a major third?

• The interval from C to E spans four half steps

• The interval from C to E spans four whole steps

• The interval from D to E spans three half steps

• The interval from C to D to E spans four half steps

What is a formula?

• meaningful combination of constants and one or more

  variables

• provided that all the roots

  are real numbers and no denominator is zero

• nonzero number tells you to put 1 as the answer when you evaluate.

• rules that model relationships in real-life situations.

What instrument is use to determine the relative mass of a single atom accurately in modern day labatories?

• empiricism

• mass spectrometers

• curved magnet.

• Isotopes

Who was NOT involved in the Seven Years' War?

• Carribean

• Indian Subcontinent

• Russia

• South America

What is a Rhythm?

• the way music is organized in time.

• the steady pulse that underlies most music.

• The speed of the beat

• a series of successive pitches perceived by

  the ear to form a coherent whole.

Who are Tories?

• people who supported

  the idea of independence.

• an enslaved girl

• people loyal to the British

  during the American Revolution.

• an

  enslaved boy

What is Addtive Identify Property?

• when every real number, except zero, has a multiplicative inverse (its reciprocal) whose

  product with the number is 1.

• when you have a number times a sum (or a sum times a number), you can multiply

  each number separately first and then add the products.

• how many times to use the base as a factor.

• when you have a real number, namely 0, whose sum with any real number

  is the number itself.

What is ionization energy?

• decreases

  from left to right across a period in the periodic table.

• a term applied to an atom as a

  measure of the fact that most neutral atoms still exhibit

  a small attraction for an electron.

• the energy required to

  entirely remove an outer electron from an atom.

• energy

  increases from top to bottom across a period in the

  periodic table.

When did the colonist repeal the Townshend Act?

• April 1770

• May 1770

• June 1770

• July 1770