Nimble Numbers
What is 4507 + 2368
6875
What ocean borders California on the west?
The Pacific Ocean
What is a stanza in a poem?
A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in prose
What right did the 19th Amendment give to American women?
The right to vote
What is camouflage? Name one animal that uses it.
Camouflage is blending in with the surroundings to hide.
A rectangle has a length of 9 inches and a width of 6 inches. What is its perimeter?
30 inches
What year did California become the 31st state in the United States?
1850
What is it called when a poet uses words that imitate sounds, like "buzz" or "crash"?
Onomatopoeia
In what year was the 19th Amendment ratified?
1920
What is the difference between venom and poision
venom is injected (active), while poison is absorbed through ingestion, inhalation, or skin contact (passive)
What is 7 × 48?
336
What event in 1848 brought thousands of people from around the world rushing to California?
The discovery of gold (the Gold Rush)
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Give an example of each.
A simile compares using "like" or "as" (e.g. "brave as a lion"); a metaphor says something IS something else (e.g. "she is a lion")
What is a suffragist? Name one famous suffragist from the movement.
A person who fought for women's right to vote. Accept: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul etc.
What is mimicry? Give an example of an animal that uses it.
Mimicry is when one animal looks or acts like another (often dangerous) animal to fool predators.
A pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. Maya ate 3/8 and her brother ate 2/8. What fraction of the pizza is left?
3/8
What was the name of the trail that many pioneers traveled overland to reach California in the 1840s?
The California Trail (also accept Oregon Trail)
What poet wrote the famous poem, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" ?
Robert Frost
Explain why some suffragists and historians say the 19th Amendment did not give ALL women the right to vote right away. Who was still left out?
Many women of color — especially Black women in the South — were blocked from voting by literacy tests, poll taxes, and violence.
When a springbok feels threatened by a predator, it leaps high into the air repeatedly. What is this behavior called, and why do scientists think it works as a defense?
Stotting (or pronking). It signals to the predator that the springbok is strong, healthy, and fast — not worth chasing — so the predator often gives up.
A store sells pencils in packs of 6. If a teacher needs 138 pencils, how many packs does she need to buy?
23 packs (138 ÷ 6 = 23)
Name two groups of people whose lives were dramatically changed by the California Gold Rush, and explain how.
Answers will vary: Natives, Chinese immigrants,
A poem describes a tree in autumn as "letting go of its burning hands." is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
In the Hope Chest Violet and Myrtle meet Hobie the Hobo and learn to ride on the train for free. What does he teach them to do and what is it called?
He teaches them to ride in between train cars. Called "Catching a Blind"
The monarch butterfly is poisonous to predators. Explain where the monarch gets its poison AND how its appearance works as a defense mechanism.
The monarch gets its poison from milkweed it eats as a caterpillar. Its bright orange and black wings are warning coloration (aposematism) — predators that have tried eating a monarch before learn to avoid anything that looks like it.