Math
a numerical expression consisting of a non-zero whole number and a proper fraction. Example: 3 1/4
What is a mixed numeral?
The narrator in this point of view uses the pronouns, "he, she, they".
What is third person?
These are the five senses.
What is smell, touch, taste, hear and see?
Ancient Chinese used these for writing and diving the future.
What are oracle bones?
These animals eat only plant matter.
What is a herbivore?
The city in which Blair grew up.
What is Philadelphia?
In PEMDAS, we do it left to right.
What is multiplication and division? Also what is addition and subtraction?
"The clouds wept" is an example this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
The scientific name of the long, green/grey lichen we often call "Old man's beard"?
What is Usnea?
The type of "paper" used for writiing in Ancient Egypt
What is papyrus?
These organisms break down organic matter.
What are decomposers?
Ice Cream and more Ice Cream!
What is Blair's favorite food?
A number derived by flipping the numerator and denominator.
What is the reciprocal?
An antonym for the word "ordinary"
What is "special" or "unique"?
7x7x7x7x7 can also be written as this.
What is 75 ?
The first three Chinese Dynasties
What is the Shang, Zhou and Han?
Many discoveries, including bronze, were made by accident by these gold thirsty scientists.
What is an alchemist?
Whitethorn Elementary is the last school Blair did what?
What is teach?
1/2 base times height is the formula for this.
What is the area of a triangle?
All proper nouns require this.
What is capitalization?
This is a foul called in basketball and also what some people do when on a break from work or school.
What is traveling?
One of the rivers on which the Ancient Sumerian's first settled.
What is the Tigris or the Euphrates?
This is the element is derived primarily from the sea, not the forest, as originally presumed.
What is Oxygen?
Skippy and Lucy
What are the names of Blair's two dogs?
A polygon (or 2 dimensional figure) with 6 congruent sides and 6 congruent angles.
What is a regular hexagon?
a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence, such as and, but, or, or because.
What is a conjunction?
This tall obelisk in Washington DC is called this.
What is the Washington Monument?
A hand-operated irrigation tool consisting of a long, pivoted pole with a bucket on one end and a counterweight on the other used in Ancient Egypt
What is a Shadoof?
This type of cell has no nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Punctuation and Capitalization
What are Blair's pet peeves? (What drives Blair crazy?)