Parts of Speech
What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?
Noun
What is the study of life?
Biology
What is 10 x 10?
100
This word means being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering.
Chronic
This sport can only be performed where large waves are present.
Surfing
This part of speech shows action.
Verb
Frogs, salamanders, and toads are what type of species?
Amphibians
Complete the phrase:
Raining cats and _________.
Dogs
This is something that everyone should hope to have, the ability to recover readily from adversity or change
Resilience
What rapper has become an unofficial mascot at the Olympics?
Snoop Dogg
Bam! Pow! Bang!
These words are what part of speech?
Interjection
Paper is something we use in every class. What is it primarily made of?
Wood from trees
Name a search engine.
Google, Yahoo, Siri, Bing, etc.
This word means to take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property.
Plagiarize
Flav-a-Flav sponsored this team for the Olympics.
Women's water polo
These words are used to take the place of a noun.
Pronoun
What happens when a liquid becomes a gas?
Evaporation
Where are the Olympics being held this year?
Paris, France
This word means to marked by extreme care in treatment of details.
Meticulous
Synonym: Precise
This sport involves a team of swimmers competing simultaneously while doing the exact same thing.
Synchronized swimming
This part of speech modifies a noun or a pronoun.
Adjective
What causes earthquakes?
Techtonic movement or volcanoes
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
This word means an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
Calamity
synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy
This woman has won the most Olympic medals in gymnastics for the United States.
Simone Biles (She is also tied for second place in overall medals in women's gymnastics.)