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NUGGETS
100
This is one of the most watched volcanoes in the United States. It is located in the Cascade Range and is considered dangerous. Until Mt. St. Helens erupted, this was considered a "harmless" mountain. Not anymore!!!
What is Mt. Rainier?
100
These are the three states of matter.
What is solid, liquid and gas?
100
This is the name of the answer to a subtraction problem.
What is the difference?
100
Blood squirts out of their eyes when they are frightened.
What is a horned lizard?
100
This is the name of the ancient culture that had step pyramids and lived in Central America.
What is the Maya?
200
This is the largest river system in the west, and it makes up a big portion of our southern border.
What is the Columbia River?
200
This kind of change happens when matter becomes energy (like wood becoming ashes in a fire creating heat), or when one kind of matter becomes another.
What is a chemical change?
200
This is the name of the addition property that explains the sum of any number and 0 is the number.
What is the identity property?
200
This is what we would call someone who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
200
She was the last queen of Egypt.
Who was Cleopatra?
300
This is the region of Washington in which we live.
What is the Western Lowlands?
300
If something takes up space and has mass (or weight), it is made up of this.
What is matter?
300
This is another name for tally chart.
What is a frequency table?
300
This is the weighted part of a grandfather clock that swings back and forth. Also, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a really creepy story about one of these.
What is a pendulum?
300
This rock band from London became very popular in the 1960s.
Who are the Beatles?
400
THIS is what carved out the Puget Sound and filled it with water!
What is a glacier?
400
Any change to a substance that makes it look different, like cutting or folding, is called this.
What is a physical change?
400
Look at the following data list: 252 210 235 425 229 425 would be called this.
What is an outlier?
400
Two of the pieces that are used in the game of chess are called ....
What are rooks and knights?
400
This made Blackbeard, one of the most famous pirates, even scarier to his enemies.
What is the fact that he set his beard on fire?
500
This is a vegetable oil based fuel that cars and other machines can run on.
What is biodiesel?
500
Chemist Wallace Carothers discovered this new fabric when he was working with polymers and removed the water from the chemicals.
What is nylon?
500
This shows data using Xs above a number line.
What is a line plot?
500
Someone who has trouble sleeping is called this.
What is an insomniac?
500
The Maya were the first civilization to have one of these.
What is a written alphabet?
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