Animals
This is the largest land animal on Earth.
What is the African Elephant?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This part of speech shows action, like “run,” “jump,” or “sing.”
What is a verb?
This planet is known as the red planet.
What is Mars?
The ancient Egyptians built these massive stone structures as tombs for their pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
This mammal is known for building dams in rivers and streams.
What is a beaver?
This country is both a continent and the only country that covers an entire continent.
What is Australia?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or to form contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
Water changes from a liquid to a gas through this process.
What is evaporation?
This ship carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This animal can change its color to blend into its surroundings.
What is a chameleon?
This imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This is the grammatical term for a word that takes the place of a noun, like “he,” “she,” or “they.”
What is a pronoun?
The basic building blocks of all living things are called these.
What are cells?
The Cold War mainly pitted these two against each other from 1947 to 1991.
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This is the fastest land animal in the world.
What is a cheetah?
This capital city sits along the Tiber River and is home to the Colosseum.
What is Rome?
In the analogy “Bird is to sky as fish is to ___,” this word correctly completes the relationship.
What is water?
This gas makes up about 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere.
This 14th-century pandemic killed an estimated 25–30 million people in Europe and is known as one of the deadliest events in human history.
What is the Black Death (or Bubonic Plague)?
This large marine mammal is known for its long tusks and whiskers and can weigh over 3,000 pounds.
What is a walrus?
This mountain range stretches across seven countries in South America and is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
What is the Andes Mountains.
This type of sentence contains two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction like “and,” “but,” or “or.”
What is a compound sentence?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it produces energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
This 18th-century French military leader rose to power during the French Revolution and became emperor of France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?