Math
What is area? What is perimeter?
area - amount of space inside a shape
perimeter - length of outline of a shape
What does activist mean?
someone who strongly believes in changing something and works hard to make it happen
Define the suffix 'ist' and give an example of a word with the suffix 'ist'
Someone who does something
What is the force on Earth that pulls things down?
Gravity
What are the four directions? Point to them.
North (up)
East (right)
South (down)
West (left)
What are the three parts of a multiplication equation?
factor, factor, product
Use the word resolve in a sentence.
Answers will vary
What is a conjunction and what is an example?
A word that connects two ideas or sentences
and, but, so etc
What is a vertebrate and an invertebrate?
vertebrate - animal with a backbone
invertebrate - animal without a backbone
Which Native American group lived in the tundra and used sleds and igloos?
Inuits
A pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. If you eat 3 slices, what fraction is left?
⅝
What is a synonym for the word 'feud'?
fight, argument, disagreement etc.
What are the four types of nouns?
common, proper, concrete, abstract
What is climate? What is weather?
Climate: a trend of what is happening in the air outside over time
Weather: what is happening in the air outside at a given time
What is a citizen?
Someone who is part of a larger group
Say a comparison statement between ¾ and ⅞
¾ < ⅞ or ⅞ > ¾
Use the word hollow in a sentence
Will vary
Define the prefix 'mis' and give an example of a word with the prefix 'mis'
it means wrong
Examples: misspell, misbehave, misdirect
What are two of the five body systems?
digestive
skeletal
muscular
circulatory
nervous
What are three different types of houses we learned about that the Native American tribes used?
Teepee, longhouse, igloo, adobe/pueblo, chickees
What is a regular polygon?
A shape with all equal sides and all equal angles
What is an antonym for the word thrive?
struggle, fail, decline
What is a subject pronoun? Give an example
a pronoun that is the subject of a sentence.
Example: Instead of 'David went to school', 'He went to school'
What is one similarity and one difference between light and sound?
both energy, both travel in waves
light is faster than sound, eyes vs. ears, seeing vs. hearing
It told the story of a family's history or of important events often using animals symbols