5th grade Math
5th Grade Science
5th Grade Riddles
5th Grade ELA
5th Grade Social Studies
100
163 + 939 + 746=?
1,848
100
What is this a depiction of?
An atom.
100
The more you have of it, the less you see.
What is darkness?
100
The main character of Esperanza Rising.
Who is Esperanza Ortega?
100
Which country is highlighted?
What is India?
200
1,000,000 - 472,968=?
527,032
200
Layer of Earth that includes all living things.
What is the biosphere?
200
It is yours but is mostly used by others
What is your name?
200
Exotic, three, purple, and tiny are examples of this
What is an adjective?
200
The sixteenth president of the United States
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
6/8+9/12=?
6/4,or 1 1/2
300
The third planet from the Sun
What is Earth?
300
If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, it becomes this
What is wet?
300
evening : dusk :: morning : ________
What is dawn?
300
Where Benjamin Franklin was born
What is England?
400
2/7-:4/5=?
5/14
400
The stage of the water cycle in which rain occurs.
What is precipitation?
400
Forwards I'm heavy, but backwards I'm not.
What is "ton"?
400
The reference source that would list synonyms for a word.
What is a thesaurus?
400
Name four states that start with "New".
What are New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York?
500
How many inches are in three feet?
What is 36 inches?
500
The organ where blood is pumped to the rest of the body.
What is the heart?
500
It has four wheels and flies
What is a garbage truck?
500
The words "challenging" and "effortless" have this relationship
What are antonyms?
500
The Grand Canyon is located in this state.
What is Arizona?
600
4.61 xx3.78
17.4258
600
The primary source of matter and energy entering most food chains
What are plants?
600
This has a forest but no trees, cities but no people, and rivers but no water
What is a map?
600
What book includes the sentence "And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.”
What is The Westing Game?
600
It was the forced relocation of roughly 100,000 Native Americans from the Southeast region of the United States to territory west of the Mississippi River.
What was The Trail of Tears?
700
Miss Jones gave her students the number 30,808 and asked them to write the number in expanded form. Chance wrote (3 x 10,000) + (8 x 10) + (8 x 1). Adele wrote (3 x 10,000) + (8 x 100) + (8 x 1). Who is correct?
Who is Adele?
700
The gradual wearing away of something, like rocks, by wind, water, or other natural agents.
What is erosion?
700
It appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years?
What is the letter m?
700
This book contains the quote: “Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.”
What is The One and Only Ivan?
700
In World War II, three great Allied powers formed a Grand Alliance that was the key to victory. Name two of the three.
What were Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union?
800
Terrance and his three friends earned $359 in August, $522 in July, and $420 in September selling lemonade. How much would they each earn if they divided their earnings equally?
What is $325.25?
$359 + $522 + $420=$1,301
$1301/4 =$325.25
800
This is the layer of Earth that rocks and mountains.
What is the geosphere?
800
I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow's in the middle.
What is a dictionary?
800
The first chapter of this book begins “If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.”
What is The Bad Beginning?
800
The first internal tax levied on American colonists by British parliament, imposing a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
900
A beetle is about 3/4 of an inch long. A rattlesnake is about 30 times longer. How long is a rattlesnake?
What is 22.5 or 22 1/2 inches?
3/4 of an inch is .75 x 1 inch
30 x .75 = 22.5 inches
900
What kind of change occurs when vinegar and baking soda are mixed together?
What is a chemical reaction?
900
A rooster is sitting on the roof of a barn facing west. If it laid an egg, would the egg roll to the north or to the south?
What is neither? A rooster cannot lay eggs
900
"He tore through the room like a bull in a china shop" is an example.
What is a simile?
900
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
What is the beginning of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence?
1000
5th graders decided to wish Mrs. Ryckeley a Happy Retirement by painting a wall of her home Lime Green. The wall measures 11 feet x 8 feet. A bucket of paint covers 78 square feet. Will one bucket of paint be enough to paint the wall?
What is NO?
11 x 8=88 square feet
1000
How a compass works
Magnets - a compass uses a magnetized needle on a swivel that reacts to the magnetism of the North Pole.
1000
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old.
What is a candle?
1000
Which book character lived at Number 12 Privet Drive?
Who is Harry Potter?
1000
Clara Barton received this nickname during the Civil War.
What is the Angel of the Battlefield?