Food Week
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100
Before we wrote Deezy persuasive letters, convincing her to eat our favorite meals, all she ate was this.
What is dinosaur food?
100
This shy, dark-colored animal is the jungle relative of the tall and social giraffe.
What is an okapi?
100
This American scientist invented the electric lightbulb in 1879.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
This stuffed tiger is best friends with a boy named Calvin, and comes alive when no other people are around. We read about their adventures in a famous comic book.
Who is Hobbes?
100
This was the name of Time Travelin' Pete's pet robot.
Who is Wrigley?
200
This snack came out victorious in our vicious snack vs. snack debate.
What are M&M's?
200
This habitat gets some rain, but not enough for trees to grow — so animals that live there have adapted to run fast over wide open spaces, or burrow into the ground to hide from hunters.
What is a grassland?
200
When making ice cream, you put the small bag of ingredients inside a larger bag, add ice, and then — to make the ice extra cold and freeze the ice cream — you add this ingredient.
What is rock salt? ("Salt" will not be accepted.)
200
This is a fancy word for when a person writes a story about his or her own life.
What is an autobiography? ("Biography" not accepted.)
200
This is the word for a group of predictions about someone's future, based on the positions of the stars and the month when you were born.
What is a horoscope?
300
These are three examples of "order words," which are words that help a reader keep track of events in your story.
What is first/second/next/then/finally? (etc.)
300
These are three drought tips we learned from ITAL/C Studios on how to save water and help protect California from drought. (Must be ITAL/C tips, not tips we wrote ourselves.)
What is: Take 5 minute showers? Use a glass of water for brushing your teeth? Re-use water? Buy a dual-flush toilet? Don't water your lawn? Take sailor showers? Fix leaky faucets and pipes? Dishwashers use less water than you? Shower with a friend? If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down? Pee on a tree? Use a broom to clean driveways, sidewalks, and patios? Only plant native, drought-tolerant plants? If it ain't dirty, don't wash it?
300
In space, crumbs can be deadly, so astronauts eat this food instead of bread.
What are tortillas?
300
Vasalisa the Brave and the evil witch Baba Yaga star in the Russian version of this well-known fairytale.
What is Cinderella?
300
According to Mrs. Barnacle's predictions, Hayley will become this and be wildly successful — until a massive flood destroys her factory, and she is forced to leave the country.
What is a Cheeto Empress?
400
This type of diagram, composed of two big circles that overlap in the middle, allows us to show the similarities and differences between two things.
What is a Venn diagram?
400
The letters "P-S-A" stand for this.
What is a public service announcement?
400
This invention, created by a scientist named Gutenberg in 1440, allowed people to make lots of books at once instead of writing all of them by hand.
What is a printing press?
400
This is a famous film director, who created animated movies like "Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Totoro," and "Princess Mononoke."
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
400
If you want to check how well a structure is able to protect an egg, you might go to the top of a ladder and perform one of these.
What is a drop test?
500
What is Mrs. Barnacle's husband's first name?
Who is Phineas?
500
This classification of animal lays eggs, breathes through its damp skin, and has webbed feet.
What is an amphibian?
500
What is the name for any substance — like oobleck — that sometimes acts like a liquid, and sometimes acts like a solid?
What is a non-Newtonian fluid?
500
Charles and Ray Eames are designers that are most famous for creating a modern and sleek version of this.
What is a chair?
500
This word is the past tense version of the word "lie," as in, "lie down on a bed."
What is "lay"?
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