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100

This type of rock is formed from cementing and compacting.

What is sedimentary rock?

100

This Roman named Caesar was the first dictator of Rome.

Who is Julius Caesar?

100

The thing you were supposed to get every Wednesday in Reflex Math.

What is the green light?

100

Saroo Brierley traveled to this country, looking for his birth family.

What is India?

100

This annual Dryden celebration features a parade down Main Street with tractors, farm animals, and bands. Musical groups and vendors in Montgomery Park finish off the fun. The event is held each year on the second Saturday in June. 

What is Dryden Dairy Day?

100

Every morning, this person greets us with a cheery "Goooood morning, Dryden Middle School!"

Who is Ms. Wood?

200

This type of energy is stored, such as when a cyclist is at the top of a hill, ready to go down. 

What is potential energy?

200

Citizens participate by voting in this type of government.

What is a democracy?

200

The number in a data set that appears the most often. 

What is the mode?

200

The name of the city that Milo visits, which Ms. Berkeley, Miss Sinnigen, and Ms. DeVoe would like a lot. 

What is Digitopolis?

200

These include: obey traffic signals, pass on the left, ride with the flow of traffic, and signal to turn and stop. 

What are the Rules of the Road for Bicycling?

200

This curly-topped person used to work with younger students and walked the halls of the elementary schools. Now you find her in the Main Office at Dryden Middle School.

Who is Ms. Powell?

300

The name of the scientist said to be the first to suggest the idea of continental drift.

Who is Alfred Wegener?

300

These ancient Egyptian structures were built as tombs for royalty. 

What are the pyramids?

300

The name of the horizontal axis on a coordinate plane. 

What is the x-axis?

300

This animal ally was a loyal companion, waiting for his owner every day at the train station.

Who is Hachiko? (or Hachi)

300

This Element of Art involves the sense of touch- actual or implied. 

What is Texture?

300

Her name sounds a little like a bubbly grown-up drink. Her personality is bubbly, too. She might greet you near the front door each morning. Some kids get nervous when they are called to her office. 

Who is Ms. Champlain?

400

The study of the relationship between living things and the environment.

What is ecology?

400

This ancient Chinese invention exploded on the world and changed the way we go to war. 

What is gunpowder?

400

Length times width.

What is the formula for the area of a square or rectangle?

400

This term, borrowed from the field of astronomy, describes what some call an addiction to our cell phones or other devices. 

What is the Black Hole of Technology?

400

The name of the cute programmable robots used in Technology class, named after a famous American inventor. 

What is Edison?

400

She will check your temperature, apply a bandage, and call home if you throw up. 

Who is our school nurse, Ms. Ludwig?

500

The name given the system of measurement used by scientists that uses meters for length, liters for volume, and grams for weight.

What is the metric system? (or What is metric?)

500

Flooding rivers in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt left behind this fertile soil.

What is silt?

500

A symbol for a number we don't know yet. 

What is a variable?

500

In Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her early life in verse, otherwise known as this genre.

What is poetry?

500

Blades closed, pointed down, no running.

What is "How Ms. Wood taught us to walk with scissors"?

500

This is the name of one of our 6th grade Student Council representatives. (Just name one to win!)

Who is Dani Al Shoffe?

Who is Josie Falise?

Who is Chloe Jarvis?

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