Grade 5 Math
What do we call a 90 degree angle?
right angle / perpendicular
What are the three levels of government in Canada?
Municipal, provincial, and federal
What kind of figurative language is in this sentence?
The spaghetti slithered around like snakes on her plate.
simile
alliteration
What are the three different states of matter?
Solid, Liquid, and Gas
Which country is both an island and a continent?
Australia
If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:15 pm and arrived 35 minutes late, what time did it arrive?
3:50pm
Which is older: Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia?
Mesopotamia
What would you call the central character of a story or plot?
Protagonist/main character
Any material that does not allow heat to pass through it easily is called a/an ___________.
a. conductor b. expander
c. contractor d. insulator
d. insulator
Name three of Earth's five oceans.
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic) oceans
The number of seconds in 1 hour.
3600
Find the minutes in 1 hours (60)
60 x 60 (seconds in a minute) = 3600
Which ancient civilization built the pyramids of Giza?
Ancient Egyptians
Which word is misspelled?
a. quite b. seperate c. dessert d. receipt
b. seperate should be separate
What is the fourth planet from the Sun?
Mars
What is the capital of California?
Sacramento
3+5 x 6=?
33
When was USA founded?
July 4, 1776
What are describing noun words called?
Adjectives
What are animals without a backbone called?
Invertebrates
What is the widest river in the United States?
Mississipi River at 11 miles at the widest point
35 x 12 = ?
420
This is where Japan bombed the United States Navy on December 7, 1941. As a result, the United States entered WWII.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
The person in a novel who tells the story from a third-person perspective is called a what?
A narrator
Which is faster: sound or light?
Light
BONUS for extra 300points: How fast is the speed of light?
Which state is the largest by land and total area?
Alaska
24
16
Who was the President during World War 2?
Franklin Delano Rousevelt
What kind of figurative language is in this sentence?
You can hear the trees whisper in the dark.
Personification
What is the layer that traps heat within our atmosphere called?
Ozone Layer
What is the highest mountain in the US?
Mt. Denali, formerly Mt. McKinley