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POLCA: Game KNB?

Total questions: 75

Worksheet time: 43mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

First person to observe and record cells was.

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Matthias Schieldon

c)

Theodor Schwann

2.

Which of the following cell parts are founded in both animal, bacteria and plant cells?

a)

Lysosomes

b)

Ribosomes

c)

Chloroplast

3.

Which base is not found in the DNA of most organisms?

a)

Adenine

b)

Uracil

c)

Cytosine

4.

What determines the order of amino acids in a protein?

a)

Codons

b)

DNA

c)

RNA

5.

Father of Genetics?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Gregor Mendel

c)

Robert Hooke

6.

An organism with two identical alleles for a trait is called?

a)

Heterozygous

b)

Homozygous

c)

Polyploidy

7.

The earth is _______ years old

a)

460,000

b)

4,600,000

c)

4,600.000,000

8.

What do you call the process where humans have modified other species over many generations by selecting and breeding individuals that possess desired trait?

a)

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION

b)

NATURAL SELECTION

c)

GENETIC DRIFT

9.

How many chromosomes are present if a cell contains 16 chromosomes at the start of Mitosis?

a)

8

b)

16

c)

32

10.

Uncontrolled cell division is known as.

a)

Cancer

b)

Mitosis

c)

Cytokinesis

11.

What is the total number of chromosomes in a dipload cell of a person with down syndrome?

a)

22

b)

38

c)

47

12.

Which of the following materials is NOT a pure substance?

a)

Ethyl Alcohol

b)

Salt

c)

Iron

d)

Cheese

13.

What forces that are equal in magnitude but act opposite direction?

a)

Balance Force

b)

Unbalance Force

c)

Frictional Force

d)

Forcing Someone to Love You Back isn't Good

14.

A rifle recoils when fired. Which law of motion describes this?

a)

Law of Inertia

b)

Law of Acceleration

c)

Law of Interaction

15.

The rate of change in velocity of a moving object per unit of time is called?

a)

Acceleration

b)

Speed

c)

Force

16.

What is the unit of force

a)

Meter per second

b)

Newton

c)

2

17.

It is the rate of doing work

a)

Joule

b)

Power

c)

Newton

18.

It is the Unit for Work

a)

Joule

b)

Power

c)

Newton

19.

Who developed the atomic theory?

a)

Lavoiser

b)

Dalton

c)

Proust

20.

Give the name of this compound: CO2

(a)  

21.

Give the name of this compound: SO3

(a)  

22.

Give the name of this compound: MgCl

(a)  

23.

Give the name of this compound: C5H8NO4Na

(a)  

24.

Give the name of this compound: C6H12O6

(a)  

25.

Give the name of this compound: N2O

(a)  

26.

Substances made up of a single type of atom.

(a)  

27.

Third element of the 10th column in the periodic table. It was 1st found in South America prior to the arrival of the Spanish.

a)

Silver

b)

Gold

c)

Platinum

28.

A liquid is determined to be an acid or base depending on the type of ___ in the liquid

a)

Electrons

b)

Protons

c)

Ions

d)

Neutrons

29.

A measurement of how acidic or basic a liquid is.

(a)  

30.

Reactants and reagents are the substances that are used to bring about the chemical reaction.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

The repetition of an initial consonant sound.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Apostrophe

32.

Directly addressing a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though it were a living being.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Apostrophe

33.

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Antithesis

c)

Apostrophe

d)

Assonance

34.

Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Antithesis

c)

Apostrophe

d)

Assonance

35.

The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.

a)

Euphemism

b)

Irony

c)

Litotes

d)

Metonymy

36.

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.

a)

Euphemism

b)

Irony

c)

Litotes

d)

Metonymy

37.

The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. Also, a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.

a)

Euphemism

b)

Irony

c)

Litotes

d)

Metonymy

38.

The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Paradox

d)

Synecdoche

39.

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Paradox

d)

Synecdoche

40.

A statement that appears to contradict itself.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Paradox

d)

Synecdoche

41.

Element of a story: A person or animal or really anything personified. There can be one main character or many, and often there are secondary characters, but not always.

(a)  

42.

Who” is telling the story? First person (“I”) or third person (“he/she/it”). Limited (one character’s perspective), multiple (many characters’ perspectives) or omniscient (all knowing narrator). Second person (“you”) is not often used for writing stories.

(a)  

43.

Element of a stroy: The overall emotional (a)   or meaning of the story. Is it happy, funny, sad, depressed? can be portrayed in multiple ways, through word and grammar choices, choice of theme, imagery and description, symbolism, and the sounds of the words in combination

44.

Idea, belief, moral, lesson or insight. It’s the central argument that the author is trying to make the reader understand. The theme is the “why” of the story.

(a)  

45.

Element of a story: A challenge or problem around which the plot is based. With this element, the story will have purpose or trajectory.

(a)  

46.

Element of a story: Where and when is the story set? It represents both the physical location but also the time (i.e. past, present, future) and the social and cultural conditions in which the characters exist.

(a)  

47.

Elements of a story: This is how things are said. Word choices, sentence structure, dialogue, metaphor, simile, hyperbole. Style contributes significantly to tone.

(a)  

48.

Elements of the story: consists of the events that happen in the story. In this element you typically find an introduction, rising action, a climax, the falling action, and a resolution. Often represented as an arc.

(a)  

49.

I dislike ________ to the movies by myself.

a)

Going

b)

to go

50.

Our neighbour used _____ a pipe.

a)

to smoke

b)

smoking

c)

To smoking

51.

My teacher said my essay needs ________ by tomorrow.

a)

Correcting

b)

to correct

c)

Corrected

52.

I bought a (beautiful) dress at the mall.

a)

Preposition

b)

Adjective

c)

Noun

53.

What did (she) ask you to do?

a)

conjuction

b)

preposition

c)

pronoun

54.

I left my shoes (under) the kitchen table.

a)

adjective

b)

preposition

c)

pronoun

55.

If we finish our work (quickly) we can go to the movies.

a)

adverb

b)

conjunction

c)

verb

56.

On Saturdays I (work) from nine to five.

a)

Verb

b)

Preposition

c)

Adverb

57.

I want to go to a (university) in the U.S.

a)

adjective

b)

preposition

c)

noun

58.

(Well), I dont think I'll be home before 6.

a)

interjection

b)

preposition

c)

pronoun

59.

ANDY knocked the door (but) nobody answered.

a)

adverb

b)

adjective

c)

conjunction

60.

(After) lunch let's go out for a coffee.

a)

Pronoun

b)

Preposition

c)

Verb

61.

A football team lost 5 yards and then gained 9. What is the team's progress?

(a)  

62.

Use distributive property to solve the problem below:


Maria bought 10 notebooks and 5 pens costing 2 dollars each.How much did Maria pay?

(a)  

63.

A customer pays 50 dollars for a coffee maker after a discount of 20 dollars


What is the original price of the coffee maker?


Let x be the original price

(a)  

64.

Stacey studies twice as long as Kathy. Write an equation to find the number of hours Stacey studies, y, when Katy studies x hours.

a)

y = 2 + x

b)

y = 2 - x

c)

y = 2x

d)

y = 2/x

65.

What is the slope and y-intercept of the equation:

y = -3x + 10?

a)

m = 3; b = 10

b)

m = 3; b = -10

c)

m = -3; b = 10

d)

x = -3; y = 10

66.

What is the slope and y-intercept of the equation:

y = 3x - 10?

a)

m = 3; b = 10

b)

m = 3; b = -10

c)

m = -3; b = 10

d)

x = -3; y = 10

67.

Slope is equal to Rise over (a)   .

68.

What is the slope of a line that contains points: (4,4) and (1,-2)?

(a)  

69.

What is the slope of a line that contains points: (-1,-1) and (-3,2)?

(a)  

70.

True or False: y=mx + b is called slope-intercept form.

(a)  

71.

Calculate the following:

a)

Square Root of 2

b)

Square Root of 3

c)

Square Root of 4

72.

Calculate the following

a)

2

b)

4

c)

6

73.

Calculate the following

a)

10 Square Root of 3

b)

20 Square Root of 3

c)

20 Square Root of 5

74.

Calculate the following

a)

2 Square Root of 2 over 3 Square Root of 2

b)

4 Square Root of 2 over 3 Square Root of 3

c)

3 Square Root of 2 over 4 Square Root of 3

d)

4 Square root of 3 over 3 Square Root of 2

75.

Calculate the following

a)

2 plus square root of 3 over 2 square root of 3

b)

2 plus square root of 2 over 3 square root of 3

c)

2 plus square root of 3 over 2 square root of 2

d)

2 plus square root of 3 over 3 square root of 2