Math
Another name for a ratio.
What is a fraction?
The first thing we do to the first word of a sentence.
What is capitalization?
The supercontinent that formed at the end of the Paleozoic period.
What is Pangea?
The type of government ruled by one person.
What is a monarchy/dictatorship/autocracy?
The Gold Block teacher who has a twin.
Who is Ms. Koterman?
The simplification strategy where you multiply a fraction by the same number in the numerator and the denominator.
What is Giant One?
HINT: can't, shouldn't, won't
What is a contraction?
The most dense layer of the Earth.
What is the core?
The Chinese invention that was discovered when they tried to make an immortality potion.
HINT: It worked better for fireworks.
What is gunpowder?
The Gold Block teacher who has 2 dogs, 4 hens, 4 chicks, 2 roosters, and a chinchilla.
Who is Ms. Savaske?
Equivalent fractions are...
(HINT: 2/3 and 4/6 are equivalent)
What is equal (the same)?
The main idea or message of the story.
HINT: The message of "The Hunger Games" is that too much government control can lead to disaster.
What is a theme?
What is a trace fossil?
The king that was believed to be the richest in all of history.
HINT: This king lived in Mali and made a pilgrimage to Mecca. He destroyed Egypt's economy.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The Gold Block teacher who once had their wrist broken as a child from their brother sitting on it.
HINT: It was from falling off of a trampoline!
Who is Ms. Rashmi?
The volume of a rectangular prism with a width of 2 inches, length of 4 inches, and height of 5 inches.
What is 40 inches squared?
A type of figurative language that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is a simile?
The thing that caused the Earth's crust to form.
The Russian Mystic who the Czar and Czarina trusted to heal their sick son, who was later assassinated?
HINT: There is a song written about him about all the women falling in love with him.
Who is Rasputin?
The Gold Block teacher who ate a habanero pepper per day to develop a heat tolerance.
Who is Mr. Riyeff?
Solve for x:
2/3x + 7 = x + 10
What is x = -9?
A sentence that is telling you to do something; a "command" sentence.
What is an imperative sentence?
The five steps of petrified fossil creation.
What is death, burial, mineralization, uplift, and discovery?
The Abrahamic religions.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
The Gold Block teacher who went to River Bluff Middle School as part of the first 8th grade class.
Who is Ms. Swadley?