8th Grade Trivia

8th GradeMath

100

Find x of the following equation:

    30=-3x + 15

What is x= -5

200

No Calculator:

The square root of 144?

What is 12?

300

Solve 1/4 + 2/28 

What is 9/28?

400

Degrees in a triangle

What is 180?

500

Explain how to turn a decimal into a percent.

What is multiplying by 100 or moving a decimal two places to the right?

8th Grade Science

100

The point on which a lever rests or is supported, and on which it pivots.

What is the fulcrum?

200

How does mass effect the amount of force needed to move an object?

The greater the mass, the greater the amount of force needed to move it

300

These help plants take energy from the sun.

What are chloroplasts? 

400

The force that causes a book to slow down when sliding across the floor.

What is friction?

700

How do earthquakes happen?

Tectonic plates under the Earth's crust shift and move causing a massive release of energy which we feel up on the surface.

8th GradeSocial Studies

100

An ocean bordering Japan.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

200

Canada's first Prime Minister.

Who was John A. MacDonald?

300

Define the Prime Meridian

What is the invisible line across the Earth where longitude is zero.

400

A  Canadian who invented the telephone

Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

700

What is agriculture?

The culture of Farming.

8th GradeEnglish

100

The number of sentences in a good paragraph.

What is at least 4 to 5?

200

A Resumé

What is a  formal document that a job applicant creates to display their qualifications for a position?

400

Using words such as 'like' or 'as' to describe something.

What is a simile?

500

What is author's purpose?

The reason for writing a literary piece.

600

Define a verb.

What is a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence?

8th GradeRandom

100

The number of beats in a half note.

What is two beats?

200

The formula for the volume of a rectangular prism?

What is L x W x H = V?

300

What is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. 

What is photosynthesis.

400

The ____ is the powerhouse of the cell.

What is Mitochondria?

500

The 16th letter of the alphabet

What is P?

600

The estimate of the total value of all the final product…
GNP is related to another important economic measure called gross domestic product (GDP), which takes into account all output produced within a country's borders regardless of who owns the means of production. 

Gross National Product