Space
The earth turning once causing day and night.
What is rotation?
The force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.
What is gravity?
Born in February of 1564 in Italy, this scientist invented the telescope.
Who was Galileo?
The Greek mathematician and scientist who discovered water displacement as a method of finding the volume of an object..
Who is Archimedes?
The baseball team that Mr. C loves.
Who are the New York Mets?
A negatively charged sub atomic particle.
What is an electron?
If this doesn't bounce back off the wall, you'll go hungry.
What is a a ricochet biscuit?
The four operations.
What are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division?
It took more than 2000 years to complete this construction project. I connected previous fortifications and small walls for more than 5500 miles. Construction began in 221 BCE and was completed 1500 CE. I protected citizens of China from nomadic invaders such as the Mongols. I was constructed from dirt, stone, wood, and brick.
Great Wall of China
The storm that has been happening for more than 150 years on Jupiter.
What is The Great Red Spot.
One of these around the sun and another name for orbit.
What is revolution?
From the impoverished town of Tres Coracoes in Brazil this soccer player scored over 1000 goals.
Who is Pelé?
The piece of lab equipment used for finding volume with water displacement.
What is a graduated cylinder?
Mr. C grandson.
Who is Malcolm Lawrynce?
A positively charged subatomic particle.
What is a proton?
What country has Russia on its northern border and China on its southern border?
Mongolia
The simplest form of the fraction 8/16
What is 1/2?
I am a mausoleum located in Uttar Pradesh, India. I am regarded as the finest example of Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan began construction in 1653 CE. Over 1000 elephants were used to transport materials from all over India and Asia.
Taj Mahal
93 million miles.
What is the distance to the sun from earth?
Days it takes for earth to travel around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 Days?
I was disappointed that I did not invent the telephone but proud that I improved it. I also said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." and, "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
The formula for calculating density.
What is Density= Mass/ Volume
Mr C's favorite pizza place.
What is Joe's pizza?
This tells the number of protons and/or electrons in an element.
What is the atomic number?
four nickels, two quarters, one dime and six pennies
What is 86 cents?
GCF is an acronym for this.
What is Greatest Common Factor?
This part of a story plot comes at the beginning and is important in establishing the setting, characters and initial events.
The furthest planet from the sun in our solar system.
What is Neptune?
Regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape.
What is a black hole?
A news anchor at the age of 19, the author of eight books and a talk show host.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
What is measured by water displacement indicating how much space something takes up.
What is volume?
Mr C's middle name.
Anthony
I am the creator of the periodic table.
Who is Dimitri Mendeleev?
The two sisters in The Bridge Home
Viji and Ruku
The answer in a multiplication problem.
What is a product?
1st Person POV - point of view
Unlike the other planets in our solar system, this planet spins clockwise on its axis.
What is Venus?
The two opposing forces that keep[ the earth (and all the planets) in orbit around the sun.
What are centrifugal and centripetal forces?
A book written by a young girl who was shot three times by extremists for standing up for the rights of girls in education.
I Am Malala
This is measured with a triple beam balance, usually in grams.
What is mass?
Mr C was born here.
What is Brooklyn, New York
I am the most abundant in the Universe
What is Hydrogen?
The current Governor of California.
Who is Governor Gavin Newsome?
The answer in an addition problem.
What is a sum?
I am the largest Hindu temple complex in the world. I was built by King Surayavarman II in 1172 CE. I was designed to represent Mount Meru, the home of the gods. I was designated to Vishnu. I was made out of sandstone.
Angkor Wat
When this celestial object is brightest, sea turtles use its light to navigate their way back to the ocean.
What is the moon?
This is a shield volcano towering at a height of 21.9 km, making it two and a half times taller than Mount Everest. It is the largest volcano in the entire Solar System.
What is Olympus Mons?
I am the only president to be elected four times. I learned to never give up because of my battle with polio. I guided America through two very difficult times, the Great Depression and World War II
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
If something has a specific density that is less than 1 (the density of water) this will happen?
What is float in or on water?
Mr C drives this type of truck.
What is a Chevy Colorado?
A sub-atomic particle with no charge.
What is a neutron?
A line that goes through the center of a circle from one side of the circumference to the other side of the circumference.
What is the diameter?
The answer in a division problem.
What is a quotient?
In grammar, what is the name of the part of speech that modifies nouns. It describes and tells us more about a noun.
Adjectives
I am a 14 billion year old spiral galaxy whose name comes from a Greek myth.
What is the Milky Way?
Phobos and Deimos.
What are the two moons of Mars.
The actor and playwright who penned, "Hamilton" who is known for casting with diversity in mind. Also wrote music for "Encanto" and "New Little Mermaid"
Who is Lin Manuel Miranda?
I am the lab equipment is used for finding mass.
What is a triple beam balance?
Mr C Birthday
March 13, 1968
I have 6 protons and am found in organic materials including DNA, proteins and am present in all living matter.
What is Carbon?
The era that is refered to as "the coming of mammals"
What is the Cenozoic era?
The answer in a subtraction problem.
What is the difference?
I am a famous basilica in Turkey. My dome is 182 feet in height and rests on an arcade of 40 arches. I was dedicated to Logos. I was constructed in 532 CE by Emperor Justinian.
Hagia Sophia
I was the first person to see Mars through a telescope.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
An egg shaped dwarf planet that is one of thge fastest spinning objects in the solar system, located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 and named after the Hawaiian goddess of fertility.
What is Haumea?
This climate change activist led a protest of school aged children called a school strike to bring attention to climate change.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
I am metal with a very high density. Au in elemental terms.
What is gold?
The age when Mr. C got his first job.
What is the age of 10?
I am the atomic symbol of potassium.
What is K?
The very first year of Village Gate School. Double points for the exact date of the very first day.
What is the year 2009? Or What is September 9, 2009 (9-9-09)
90
What is one?
This is the name of a part of a novel or book that lists out new words with definitions that may be helpful in understanding the story. It is helpful especially with stories that include words from foreign languages.
Discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh and have five moons, Kebros, Styx, Nix, Hydra and Charon.
What is Pluto?
The center of a black hole.
What is the singularity?
"Never say die" said this person who was named Australia's best soccer player of all time.
Who is Sam Kerr?
Spell this word
What is Cylinder?
The amount of years Mr C has been teaching.
What is 25 years?
Atomic mass minus atomic number will tell you this?
What is the number of neutrons in an atom?
One of the first creatures to develop "eyes".
What is the trilobite?
28
What is 256?
I am the largest ancient stone construction south of the Sahara. I was constructed around 800 CE by the Karanga people. My name, in Bantu, means sacred house. My most formidable edifice, the Great Enclosure, has walls 36 feet tall. All of my stone walls were constructed without the use of mortar.
Great Zimbabwe