Middle School Science
What is the red planet in our solar system?
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
What is a figure of speech that uses extreme, deliberate exaggeration to make a point, add humor, or evoke strong emotions.
hyperbole
What is the bottom of the fraction line called?
denominator
How old is Mr. Peirce?
31 years old born in 1994
What are the four main layers of earth?
The crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core.
This country is known for its pyramids and is located in Africa.
Egypt
What is a form of non-fiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person?
A biography
A group of 9 children and 8 adults are going to a movie. Child tickets cost $4, and adult tickets cost $9. How much will the movie tickets cost in total?
$108
What is the newest part of the school?
Playground
What type of rock is formed from the cooling and hardening of magma or lava?
Igneous Rock
This country is famous for pizza, pasta, and the Colosseum.
Italy
What figure of speech directly compares two things using "like" or "as"?
simile
Dana saved $22 in March. She saved $16 in April and $20 in May. Then Dana spent $54 on a keyboard. How much money does Dana have left?
$4
Why is Holy Family special in comparison to other Catholic schools?
Most parents or grandparents of students come from another country
How old is Earth
Earth is about 4.5 billion years old
This is what the continents were called when they were all one piece.
Pangea
What county did Shakespeare live in?
England
What is the value of y if x = 10?
y = 5x + 25 - 20
55
What are top 3 states and 1 country that the teachers in the building grew up in?
Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin and Mexico
The Pacific plate is the fastest-moving of the Earth’s plates. True or False
True
What is the tallest mountain in Washington?
Mount Rainier: 14,411 ft
What is the name of the book or resource that has synonyms of words?
Thesaurus
Catherine paid the electrician x dollars per hour for a 12-hour job plus $60 for parts. The total charge was $1200. Write an equation that can be used to determine how much the electrician charged per hour.
12x+60=1200
Which Middle School Teacher has been at holy family the longest?
Mr. Sand