Math Mania
This is the answer you get when you add two or more numbers together.
Correct Question: What is the sum?
Acceptable Alternate: What is the total?
This is a person or animal in a story.
Correct Question: What is a character?
Acceptable Alternates: Who is the main character? Who is a minor character?
We need this to breathe and it makes up a large part of the air around us.
Correct Question: What is oxygen?
Acceptable Alternate: What is air?
The current President of the United States lives and works in this famous house.
What is the White House?
(Math) What is the product of 5 and 3?
Correct Question: What is 15?
Acceptable Alternate: What is five times three?
A shape with four equal sides and four right angles.
Correct Question: What is a square?
Acceptable Alternate: What is a perfect square?
The place and time where a story takes place
Correct Question: What is the setting?
Acceptable Alternates: What is the environment of the story? When does the story happen?
This part of a plant helps to hold it in the ground and take in water and nutrients.
Correct Question: What are the roots?
Acceptable Alternate: What are root systems?
The name of the document that lists the basic rights of American citizens
Correct Question: What is the Bill of Rights?
Acceptable Alternate: What are the first ten amendments?
(Reading) What do you call a group of words that expresses a complete thought?
Correct Question: What is a sentence?
Acceptable Alternate: What is a complete sentence?
This is the value of the digit 7 in the number 372.
Correct Question: What is seventy?
Acceptable Alternates: What is seventy's place value? What does the 7 represent?
This is what happens in a story, including the beginning, middle, and end
Correct Question: What is the plot?
Acceptable Alternate: What is the storyline? What are the events?
The sun provides this important thing that helps us see and keeps the Earth warm.
Correct Question: What is light or heat?
Acceptable Alternates: What is sunlight? What is warmth?
This branch of the U.S. government is responsible for making laws.
Correct Question: What is the legislative branch of Congress?
Acceptable Alternate: What is Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)?
(Science) What is the Earth's natural satellite?
Correct Question: What is the Moon?
Acceptable Alternate: What orbits the Earth?
To find this, you divide the total number of items by the number of groups.
Correct Question: What is the average?
Acceptable Alternate: What is the mean?
A book that tells a story made up by the author.
Correct Question: What is fiction?
Acceptable Alternate: What is a make-believe story?
Animals that eat other animals are called this.
Correct Question: What are carnivores?
Acceptable Alternate: What are predators?
The name of the currency used in the United States.
Correct Question: What is the U.S. dollar?
Acceptable Alternate: What are dollars and cents?
(Social Studies) On what date do Americans celebrate Independence Day?
Correct Question: What is July 4th?
Acceptable Alternate: What is the Fourth of July?
These are two fractions that represent the same amount, like 21 and 42.
Correct Question: What are equivalent fractions?
Acceptable Alternate: What are equal fractions?
This literary device uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things, for example, "The clouds were like fluffy cotton balls."
Correct Question: What is a simile?
Acceptable Alternate: What is a comparison using like or as?
The process of water turning into a gas (water vapor).
Correct Question: What is evaporation?
Acceptable Alternate: What is vaporization?
One of the two major political parties in the United States
Correct Question: What is either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party?
Acceptable Alternates: What is the GOP? What are the Democrats?
(Mystery) This common phrase means it's raining very heavily.
Correct Question: What is "It's raining cats and dogs"?
Acceptable Alternates: What does "It's pouring" mean? What does "It's coming down in buckets" mean?