5th grade Math
5th Grade Science
5th Grade Riddles
5th Grade Alphabetizing
5th Grade ELA
100

What digit is in the thousandths place? 

4,392.865

5

100

What is gravity?

The force that pulls things towards Earths core. 

100

You can see me in water, but I never get wet. 

Your reflection.

100

Place in alphabetical order:
trot, train, truck, tread

train, tread, trot, truck

100

Complete this analogy: 

height : inches :: weight : ______

Pounds

200

1,000,000 - 472,000 = ? 

528,000

200
You know the three states of matter.  Name one process where matter changes from one state to another.  (There are many options.)

Four main possibilities are: freezing (from liquid to solid), melting (from solid to liquid), boiling or evaporating (from liquid to gas), condensation (from gas to liquid)

200

When you have me, you feel like sharing me, but if you do share me, you don't have me. 

A secret.

200

Place in alphabetical order:
blank, black, blaze, blare

black, blank, blare, blaze

200

What is wrong with this sentence? 

He walked to the store and buy some milk. 

The verb tenses don't agree - walked is past tense and buy is present tense. 

300

147 xx 64

9,408

300

What time of day are shadows the smallest?

Mid day or 12:00 when the sun is at the highest point in the sky. 

300

An English word has six letters.  Remove one letter and twelve remains.  What is the word? 

Dozens

300

Place in alphabetical order:
coronation, cornet, comet, coddle

coddle, comet, cornet, coronation 

300

Where do the commas go? 

I saw a happy fluffy adorable little puppy on my walk home yesterday. 

After happy, fluffy, and adorable. 

400

Reduce to simplest form:

12/18

2/3

400

The tube that carries food to the stomach. 

Esophagus

400

What question can you never answer "Yes" to? 

"Are you asleep?" 

400

Place in alphabetical order:
jingle, jangle, jinx, jack, jazz

jack, jangle, jazz, jingle, jinx

400
He walked away from her with a weary sigh.  He couldn't stand to leave, but he had to.  She watched him go, not sure how to feel.  


What narrative voice is being used above? 

Third person omniscient 

500

432 + 697 + 825

1,954

500

How many centimeters in a meter? 

100

500

Three times what number is no larger than two times that same number? 

Zero

500

Place in alphabetical order:
hornet, hare, hubris, hammock, hip

hammock, hare, hip, hornet, hubris

500

This sentence asserts a claim that the writer intends to prove. 

A thesis statement. 

600

(12-:4)+15-:2

9

600

What is volume? 

The amount of space something takes up. 

600

What invention lets you look right through a wall? 

A window. 

600

Place in alphabetical order:
lime, lance, lame, last, land

lance, land, lame, last, lime

600

Give an example of a protagonist and an antagonist (not necessarily from the same story). 

Answers will vary.  Judge will decide. 

700

4.2 xx 3.17

13.314

700

What are the three states of matter? 

solid, liquid and gas

700

What came first, the chicken or the egg? 

The egg.  Dinosaurs lay eggs long before there were chickens.  

700

Place in alphabetical order:
whim, wine, whoa, whoop, wham, waste

waste, wham, whim, whoa, whoop, wine

700

What is setting? 

Where AND when a story takes place.  

800

12,964-:14

926

800

Which organ removes waste from the blood? 

kidney

800

What tastes better than it smells? 

Your tongue. 

800

Place in alphabetical order:
place, pace, piece, phase, parcel, placard

pace, parcel, phase, piece, placard, place

800

What is the difference between mood and tone? 

Tone is the author's attitude towards his/her/their subject.  Mood is how the author is trying to make the reader feel. 

900

Find the area:

30 ft2

900

What are the three types of -vores? (words that describe what an animal eats)

Omnivore, Carnivore, herbivore

900

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it? 

An anchor. 

900

Place in alphabetical order:
shout, supper, shun, sidle, shoot, saddle

saddle, sidle, shoot, shout, shun, supper

900

What is theme?

A universal idea, lesson or message explored in a creative work, usually summed up in a single sentence. 

1000

Find the volume: 

5,124 yd3

1000

Name the tree primary participants in an ecosystem's food chain/web. (Hint: I asked you this question a few weeks ago.)

Producer, Consumer & Decomposer

1000

Say my name and I disappear.  What am I? 

Silence

1000

Place in alphabetical order:
dire, driver, diner, divine, drove, drain, disdain

diner, dire, disdain, divine, drain, driver, drove

1000

What is a homograph? 

two words that are spelled the same way but have different meanings. 

M
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