Who was the first president of the United States?
What is the name of the process plants use to make their own food?
Photosynthesis
What is the meaning of the prefix re-?
Again
What is the product of 9 and 7?
63
Name a long river that runs North/South and separates the East from the West. Hint: It's the name of a U.S. state
Mississippi River
Which war did Abraham Lincoln lead the United States through?
The Civil War
When one organism hunts and kills another organism for food, what is the hunter called?
Predator
What is the meaning of the Latin root "scrib"?
Write
What is the fraction 8/12 in simplest form?
2/3
How many hemispheres are there?
4. North, South, East and West
What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What part of the water cycle includes rain, sleet, and snow?
Precipitation
What is the suffix in the word "disrespectful"?
Ful
How would you write three fourths as a decimal?
0.75
Name all the states that border Texas.
Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma
What was Patrick Henry known for saying during the American Revolution?
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
What is the largest star in our solar system?
The sun
What is the meaning of the word "rendezvous?"
A meeting that has been arranged beforehand
Which is greater: 0.8 or 8/100?
0.8 is greater
What is the imaginary line that divides the world around the middle and runs West to East.
The equator
What country helped the American colonists win the war against the British?
France
What force pulls objects towards the Earth, giving them weight?
Gravity
What word and part of speech will the word "distract" become if you add the suffix "-ion"?
Distraction: Noun
What is the correct name for any four sided polygon?
quadrilateral
Name all the states that border Oregon.
California, Washington or Idaho
Who purchased the Louisiana Territory?
Thomas Jefferson
What is the basic building block of all living things?
Cells
In the word "spectator," what is the Latin root and what does it mean?
The root is "spec" which means to see or look.
To put a fraction in simplest form, should you multiply or divide by the greatest common factor?
You should divide.
What is the capital of Florida
Tallahassee
Who helped Lewis and Clark on their journey by guiding them and translating?
Sacagawea
What is the process of a caterpillar changing into a butterfly called?
Metamorphosis
How do you spell the homophone for "seller"?
Cellar
What is the quotient of 24 divided by 6?
4
What is the highest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
What were the Northern states called during the Civil War?
The Union
What is a form of energy that you can see, which travels in a straight line from its source?
Light
Which word in this sentence is misspelled? My teamates explained the rules to me quickly.
teamates should be teammates
What is the angle called that is less than 90 degree?
Acute
What is the largest Ocean?
Pacific
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What is a material that allows electricity to flow through it easily?
A conductor
How would you spell the plural possessive form of the word "family"?
families
What digit is in the thousands place in the number 25,673?
5
What body of water borders Texas?
The Gulf of Mexico
When did the California Gold Rush begin?
1848
What do you call the natural home or environment where an organism lives?
A habitat
Which is the correct spelling:
a) saxaphone
b) saxophone
c) saxyphone
B) saxophone
Round 937,549 to the nearest ten thousand.
940,000
What is the name of the longest river in the world, flowing through 11 countries and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean?
The Amazon River