6th Grade
Math
Math
Multiply ⅓ x ⅗ State your answer in lowest terms.
Answer: 1/5
What is the control center of the cell?
Answer: Nucleus
Japan is a largely mountainous land located in the western Pacific Ocean on a _________.
a. peninsula.
b. Isthmus.
c. archipelago
d. plateau.
Answer: c. archipelago
Where did Esperanza say Miguel stood? What does this mean?
Answer: On the other side of the river; it means he is lower class than she is.
Complete this statement:
A prophet was always an _________(describe origin).
Answer: Israelite
Divide. Give the exact answer, written as a decimal.
0.8 ÷ 5 =
Answer: 0.16
Name a cell organelle that would only be found in a plant cell?
Answer: Cell wall or chloroplast
Which rivers did the first civilizations develop near?
a. Nile and the Indus
b. Euphrates and Yellow
c. Indus and Yangtze
d. Tigris and Euphrates
Answer: d. Tigris and Euphrates
Identify the pronoun whose antecedent is schooners: Schooners were once the most important ships in North America, but by 1800, they were only really used for coastal trade and fishing.
Answer: They
What new name was given to Daniel?
Answer: Belteshazzar
Write 43/25 as a percent
Answer: 172%
What kind of circuit allows a strand of Christmas lights to stay lit even if one bulb burns out?
Answer: Parallel circuit
What was a major accomplishment of the Qin empire?
Building of the Great Wall
Establishing the Silk Road
Creating a school system
Inventing paper for writing
Answer: 1. Building of the Great Wall
Complete the analogy:
Concerned is to distressed as confused is to __________
A: certain
B: shy
C: bewildered
D: amazed
Answer: C: bewildered
Before John the Baptist, how long was the period of the prophets in Israel?
A: 100 years
B: 12 years
C: 500 years
D: 7 years
Answer: C: 500 years
No calculator
What is 80% of 40
Answer: 32
What is the name for the process in which people believed life came from non-living things? For examples, rats came from rags or maggots came from meat.
Animalcule identification
Spontaneous generation
Mitosis
Membrane permeability
Answer: 2. Spontaneous generation
Who was the shogun that closed Japan to foreigners and banned Christianity?
a. Yoritomo
b. Ieyasu Tokugawa
c. Jimmu
d. Naruhito Asyama
Answer: b. Ieyasu Tokugawa
Correct the text by adding commas where necessary:
This restaurant as you’ll recall won’t seat us until everyone is present.
Answer: This restaurant, as you’ll recall, won’t seat us until everyone is present.
Of the 17 prophetic books in the Bible, how many feature the works of minor prophets?
Answer: 12
The area of a trapezoid is 72 square centimeters. The lengths of the two parallel sides are 10 cm and 14 cm. What is the height of the trapezoid?
Answer: 6 cm
Who was the first person to use the word “cell” to describe living cells based on his observations?
Anton van Leeunwenhook
Louis Pastuer
Robert Hooke
Rudolf Virchow
Answer: 3. Robert Hooke
How did the Hebrews differ from other ancient people?
Answer: They were monotheistic, not polytheistic
What does the following punctuation suggest?
Film industry professionals who are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are eligible to vote for the Academy Awards.
A: Some film industry professionals are eligible to vote
B: All film industry professionals are eligible to vote
Answer: A: Some film industry professionals are eligible to vote
Identify the three waves of the “return to Israel.” Name what was restored and who the leader was.
Answer:
The first wave of return - Zerubbabel and the Temple.
The second wave - Ezra and the law.
The Third wave - Nehemiah and the walls.