Basic Geography
5th Grade Curriculum
Dumb Questions
Science
History
100

Which ocean is the largest

Pacific

100

This planet is known as the "red planet"

Mars

100

Where does Darth Vader get his sneakers

The darth mall

100

What is the center of an atom called

Nucleus

100

The U.S got their independence from this country

Great Britain

200

What is the smallest country in the world

Vatican City

200

The process plants use to make food using sunlight is called

Photosynthesis

200

What do cows drink

Milk

200

Water freezes at what temperature in °C

0°C

200

What president is on the twenty dollar bill

Andrew Jackson

300

What is the line that divides the northern and southern hemispheres 

Equator

300

A triangle with 3 equal sides is called what

Equilateral

300

How many months have 28 days

All of them or 12

300

Water changes from a liquid to a gas during this process

Evaporation

300

Which amendment officially ended slavery

13th amendment

400

What is the capital of Canada

Ottowa

400

This layer of the Earth lies between the crust and core

Mantle

400

Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada

Because he's living

400

What is the hardest natural substance found on Earth

Diamond

400

What war was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

World War 1 (WW1)

500

Which state is Mount Rushmore located in

South Dakota

500

When you use sound in writing what literary device is being used

Onomatopoeia

500

A clerk in the butcher shop is 5'10 tall. What does he weigh?

He weighs meat

500

This scale is used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes

Richter Scale

500

This major economic crisis began in 1929

The Great Depression

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