Quiz Bowl Terms

A debatable statement that is presented as a fact, and is the main idea for the argument...

A method an author uses to describe the characters in his/her story...

A discussion involving two different points of view...

An organized group of people who make and enforce laws for a country or area of land...

Expressions using words ...

A value that does not change ...

The use of extreme exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech...

A period of great change...

The increase in links between people and economies around the world ...

The grouping of things according to their similarities...

Conversations between characters in a book, or story...

A characteristic that enables an organism to survive & reproduce in its environment...

The movement of people from the rural areas to towns and cities ...

Figure of speech comparing two things, usually using like or as...

The beliefs, traditions, language, food, or customs shared by a group of people ...

A structure enclosed by its own membrane...

To move to another country that is not your native land and settle permanently ...

Shows you how many times the number is to be used as a factor ...

Every output has exactly one output ...

A collection of numbers, symbols and operations

Theme of geography that describes how humans adapt to, depend on, or change their environment

Hints or clues an author gives about an upcoming event...

term of phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable, no resemblance

A number, letter or combination of numbers and letters. Ex. 4, 3x, 4yx ...

Anything that has mass and takes up space...

The system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services ...

An instrument which makes an object appear larger than it is ...

The overall feeling or atmosphere of a written work...

The theme or geography that describes how people, ideas and products move...

To leave from one's native land and settle somewhere else...

When the author creates a picture in the readers mind by using descriptive words...

To use the rules of math to rewrite an expression as simply as possible ...

A math sentence that says that two expressions are equal; any number sentence with and = sign

The amount of space that matter in an object occupies...

To substitute or simplify an expression ...

The attribution of personal qualities to something non-human...

A letter used to represent a number ...

A number in front of a variable ...

The study of people, places and the environment...

The total amount of inhabitants living in one specific area or place ...

Switching the numerator and denominator in a fraction ...

A large group of one celled organisms that sometimes cause disease....

Two operations that have the opposite effect, such as addition and subtraction...

The basic unit of all living things...

A period of change that replaces human and animal power with machines ...

A form of government where the people have the power ...

The downward pull of gravity on an object...

Facts, examples and statistics that support the claim ...

The central message, moral, lesson, or insight into life revealed through a literary work...

A collection of numbers, variables, signs and symbols of algebra ...

An occasion in which an earlier event is inserted into the chronological order of the story...

Find all solutions to an equation, inequality, or a system of equations and or inequalities ...

The smallest basic unit of matter...

The total market value of goods and services produced in a country in a single year ...

A function with a constant rate. Graph forms a straight line ...

A debatable statement that is opposing the initial claim...