All About 1st Grade
All the planets travel around the Sun in a path called ______.
What is an Orbit?
This well-known poem by Robert Frost tells about choosing between two paths and making decisions in life.
What is "The Road Not Taken"?
Unlike fish with true bones, sharks have a skeleton made of this flexible material that is lighter and helps them move quickly in the water.
What is cartilage?
This state’s official flower is the bluebonnet, and it is known as the “Lone Star State.”
What is Texas?
This Founding Father’s face appears on the U.S. five-cent coin, also called a nickel.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The famous stadium in Rome which was used for games and battles.
What is the Colosseum?
Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote these two similarly titled poems; "The Land of Nod" and "The Land Of ________".
What is "The Land Of Storybooks"?
This class of mollusks includes octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish.
What is Cephalopoda?
This continent is the only one that is also a country.
What is Australia?
Triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, and decagons are all examples of these closed 2D shapes made of straight sides.
What are polygons?
This Greek word means “brother.”
What is “adelphós”?
Lewis Carroll wrote the famous poem "Jabberwocky" but is more well known for writing this classic story.
What is “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”?
This ocean zone has the most sunlight and is where most ocean plants and animals live.
What is the Sunlight (Epipelagic) Zone?
The name for a person who makes or draws maps.
What is a cartographer?
In a fraction, the bottom number is called the denominator, and the top number is called this.
What is the numerator?
In grammar, this kind of word comes before a noun and tells which one—like the words; “the,” “a,” or “an.”
What is an article or an article adjective?
This English poet wrote “The Star,” which later became known as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”
Who is Jane Taylor?
Fish stay balanced in the water using this special air-filled organ.
What is a swim bladder?
The Great Lakes states include Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and this state.
What is Wisconsin?
This is the equivalent of 44 inches when converted into feet and inches.
3 feet 8 inches?
Two rivers which border The Fertile Crescent in ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris River and Euphrates River?
This poem portrays a patriot who rode through the night in 1775 to warn that British troops were coming.
What is “Paul Revere’s Ride”?
This describes the whale behavior where the animal slaps its tail on the surface of the water, often to communicate or make a loud sound.
What is lobtailing?
This imaginary line at 0° longitude which passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is larger—a pint or a quart?
What is a quart?