Grade 5 Math
What do we call a 90 degree angle?
right angle / perpendicular
What are the three levels of government in Canada?
Municipal, provincial, and federal
What kind of figurative language is in this sentence?
The spaghetti slithered around like snakes on her plate.
simile
alliteration
What are the three different states of matter?
Solid, Liquid, and Gas
Which country is both an island and a continent?
Australia
If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:15 pm and arrived 35 minutes late, what time did it arrive?
3:50pm
The Canadian fur trade (1600s–1800s) was primarily a partnership and commercial exchange between who?
Indigenous People (First Nations) and Europeans (French, then British)
What would you call the central character of a story or plot?
Protagonist/main character
Any material that does not allow heat to pass through it easily is called a/an ___________.
a. conductor b. expander
c. contractor d. insulator
d. insulator
Name three of Earth's five oceans.
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic) oceans
The number of seconds in 1 hour.
3600
Find the minutes in 1 hours (60)
60 x 60 (seconds in a minute) = 3600
Which ancient civilization built the pyramids of Giza?
Ancient Egyptians
Which word is misspelled?
a. quite b. seperate c. dessert d. receipt
b. seperate should be separate
What is the fourth planet from the Sun?
Mars
What is the capital of Northwest Territories?
Yellowknife
3+5 x 6=?
33
When was Canada founded?
July 1st, 1867
From 1864 to 1867, representatives of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada, with British support, worked together to establish a new country. These men are known as the Fathers of Confederation.
What are describing noun words called?
Adjectives
What are animals without a backbone called?
Invertebrates
What is Canada's biggest natural resource?
Canada's biggest natural resource is energy, particularly oil and gas, with vast oil sands reserves making it a global energy powerhouse, followed by significant contributions from minerals (like potash, gold, uranium) and timber, though oil & gas often leads in overall wealth contribution and production.
35 x 12 = ?
420
This is where Japan bombed the United States Navy on December 7, 1941. As a result, the United States entered WWII.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
The person in a novel who tells the story from a third-person perspective is called a what?
A narrator
Which is faster: sound or light?
Light
BONUS for extra 300points: How fast is the speed of light?
Which province / territory is the largest by land and total area in Canada?
Nunavut is the largest province or territory in Canada by land and total area, covering 2,093,190 km² (roughly 808,199 square miles) and representing 21% of the country's total area.
24
16
Who was the Prime Minister during World War 1?
Sir Robert Borden
He was Canada's prime minister from 1911 to 1920
What kind of figurative language is in this sentence?
You can hear the trees whisper in the dark.
Personification
What is the layer that traps heat within our atmosphere called?
Ozone Layer
Which province has the highest tides?
Nova Scotia
According to Guinness World Records, and other world-renowned sources, the Bay of Fundy has the highest tides on the planet: 16.8 meters (54.6 feet)