The Continents
This is the number of continents on Earth.
For an extra 500 points name them all.
What is 7?
What are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America?
This is number of senses we have.
For an extra 300 points name them all.
What is 5?
What is hearing, smelling, sight (seeing), tasting, and touching (feeling)?
This planet is third from the sun. Seventy percent of this planet's surface is made of water making it the only planet that people have walked on. It only has 1 moon and scientists say that this planet is about four and a half billion years old.
What is Earth?
Name 3 times when you use a capital letter.
What is: at the beginning of a new sentence, when using the pronoun I, and for proper nouns (when it is a person's name, the name of holidays, cities, states, countries, places to visit, days of the week and months of the year, names of companies, nationalities and languages, main words in titles of books, movies).
This is when Earth Day is celebrated. It was first celebrated on this date in 1970, when about 20 million Americans gathered at schools, universities, and community sites all over the US.
What is April 22nd?
This continent is the only continent that is an island and also a country.
What is Australia?
This is used by blind people to read.
What is Braille?
This is the hottest planet. It is also the planet with the most volcanoes. It is often times referred to as Earth's Twin because it is almost the same size as Earth and it is made up of similar material. It’s the only planet to rotate clockwise on its axis,
For an extra 200 points, name the coldest planet. This planet spins sideways, is one of the four "Gas Giants" and scientists only recently found this planet to have rings. It is the only planet named after a Greek god instead of a Roman god.
What is Venus?
What is Uranus?
Name 3 puntuation marks used at the end of sentences.
For 300 extra points tell what kind of sentence you would use these punctuation marks for.
What are periods (when telling something), question marks (when asking a question, when looking for information), exclamation point (when excited or showing emotion).
There are 5 major rainforests in the world. This is the reason they are so important.
What is they produce 20% of the oxygen in the world.
This is the largest continent in the world in terms of size and popluation. The highest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest, is a part of this continent.
What is Asia?
This is the biggest organ of the human body. It has two layers. The thin outer layer is the epidermis. The inner layer is the dermis and it is thicker.
This is what this organ is used for.
We use these to identify different textures. (You can tell the difference between a baby's soft body and the rough bark of a tree trunk.) Messages travel to the brain in less than one second.
What is the skin?
What is to feel or touch?
What are receptors?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet" because of its rust-colored soil. It has 2 moons.
For 400 extra points name the 2 moons.
What is Mars?
What are Phobos and Deimos?
This is the job of an adjective.
Give an example.
What is describes a noun (a person, place, or thing)?
This is the percent of all the water on Earth that is usable.
For 400 extra points tell what the other % of the water is.
What is 1%?
What is 97% of ther world's water is salt water and undrinkable and the other 2% is in ice caps and glaciers.
This continent is the largest desert. It holds 60%-90% of the world's fresh water. It is the only continent without a Time Zone.
What is Antarctica?
This is the the black circle in the middle of the eye. It gets bigger or smaller to let in more or less light.
This is the colored part of the eye. It comes from a word that means "rainbow." Rainbows have many colors, and so does the part of the eye.
This is the back part of the eye. It is filled with millions of cells that can sense light. There are two kinds of cells, rods and cones. Rods can only sense light in black and white. They help us to sense the shape of the things that we see. Rods are also very sensitive. They help us see in the dark. Cones add color to our vision. There are three different types of cones. Each senses a different color: red, green, and blue.
Light waves go through this part of the eye. Its job is to focus the light waves so they strike the retina in just the right place to make a sharp, clear image.
You get 400 point for each correct answer.
What is the pupil?
What is the iris?
What is the retina?
What is the lens?
These were the first 2 people to walk on the moon.
Who were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
This is the meaning of personification.
Similes and Metaphors both compare things. This is how they are different.
This is the meaning of alliteration.
This is the meaning of onomatopoeia.
When an non-human thing has human qualities (does something human)?
What is similes use the words as, like, than?
What is words in a row share the same starting consonant sound. (Peter Pepper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.)
What is a word imitates the sound it describes (bang, crash, boom, meow, moo)?
When talking about Earth Day, this is what the 3Rs mean.
What is reduce, reuse, and recycle?
This is second largest and the oldest inhabited continent. There are 54 countries on this continent, making it the continent with the most countries. The equator runs through it, making it the hottest continent. The longest river also runs through this continent.
What is Africa?
Name the 4 main types of taste.
For an extra 400 points name the fifth type of taste.
For an extra 500 points give an example of each type of taste.
For an extra 1000 points tell the part of the tongue you use to taste these.
What is sweet (sugar or honey-front of the tongue), sour (lemon-side of the tongue), salty (potato chips-edges of the tonge), and bitter (unsweetened chocolate or coffee-back of the tongue)?
What is umami (meaty or savory (salty, spicy, or rich)-all over)?
There are 8 planets.
For the 500 points name them all.
For an extra 1000 points name them in the order starting with the planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Find 3 mistakes in these sentences...
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You can earn an extra 500 points if you find all 10 errors.
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Mark Twain was a famous writer. He wrote many books including, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and huckleberry finn?"
Name 3 ways we can help the Earth.
What are: by recycling paper, plastic, cardboard, tin cans, etc.; by turning off the water when brushing our teeth; by taking showers instead of baths, (An average American uses more than 50 gallons of water in 1 day); and by reusing things (using both sides of the paper, using ripped shirts for smocks when painting, using take-out containers over again, using plastic containers for other purposes -for paint, glue, etc)