Common Knowledge
This is the number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8 planets?
Something you find in the text to help you figure out the meaning of a word or phrase.
What is context clues?
These are two lines that NEVER cross paths.
What are parallel lines.
This is a vibration, or shaking, of Earth's crust.
Double Jeopardy: What type of context clue is provided above?
What is an earthquake.
What is a definition clue.
This is the location of The Lost Colony.
What is Roanoke Island?
This is the name of a caterpillar's cocoon.
What is a chrysalis?
The universal message in a fictional story.
What is theme or central message?
This is the state that the San Andreas Fault runs through.
What is California.
This is how many colonists traveled to the New World.
What is 116?
This is the number of states in America.
What is 50?
What a reader pays attention when figuring out a story's lesson.
What is the character's actions or dialogue?
This is the number of angles an obtuse triangle must have in order to be considered obtuse.
What is one.
This is a large ocean wave usually caused by an underwater earthquake.
Double Jeopardy: This is the structure used to organize the clue above.
What is a tsunami.
What is cause and effect.
This is the governor of The Lost Colony.
Who is John White?
This is the number of continents on Earth.
What is 7.
The way an author would organize a text to tell about an event that happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect structure?
In order to have perpendicular lines, a triangle must form this.
What is a right angle.
Mount St. Helens is this type of landform.
What is a volcano.
This was the first child born in the New World.
Who was Virginia Dare?
This is a type of plant that helps to treat sunburns.
What is an aloe vera plant.
The punctuation a writer uses to show that a noun has possession or that a letter is missing between two words.
What is an apostrophe?
TRUE or FALSE
All triangles have 3 sides and 3 acute angles.
What is false.
TRUE or FALSE
An active volcano has recently erupted or will possibly erupt soon.
What is true.
This was a clue left by the colonists.
What is "Croatoan" carved on a tree?