Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs like the Triceratops that ate only plants and trees are classified into this dietary category.
What is a herbivore?
Before adding or subtracting any decimal numbers, you must line up these vertical alignment points.
What are decimal points?
On his famous 1492 voyage across the Atlantic, Christopher Columbus set sail with three famous ships: the Santa María, the Pinta, and this third ship whose name means "the girl" in Spanish.
What is the Niña?
To show that one singular dog owns a bone, you add this punctuation mark followed by the letter S to the word "dog."
What is an apostrophe?
The Latin root word rupt (found in words like rupture and erupt) means to do this to something.
What is break (or burst)?
Fierce meat-eaters like the Tyrannosaurus rex that hunted other animals belong to this group.
What is a carnivore?
The sum of $4.20 + $3.15.
What is $7.35?
This Spanish conquistador led an expedition to Mexico in 1519 and conquered the wealthy Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The correct possessive phrase to describe the pencil belonging to the student.
What is "the student's pencil"?
When a volcano suddenly bursts open and shoots out lava and ash, we say it does this action.
What is erupt?
Some prehistoric creatures ate both plants and meat, earning them this name that comes from a root meaning "all."
What is an omnivore?
If a board is 12.8 feet long and you saw off 5.3 feet, this is the length of the remaining piece.
What is 7.5 feet?
This Spanish explorer named Florida in 1513 while searching for land, gold, and a legendary fountain said to grant eternal youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de León?
When showing possession for a regular plural noun that already ends in S (like "teachers"), you place the apostrophe in this location.
What is after the S (teachers')?
If you speak while someone else is talking and break into their conversation, you do this to them.
What is interrupt?
Scientists can determine if a dinosaur was a herbivore or carnivore by examining fossilized shapes of these body parts used for chewing or tearing food.
What are teeth?
When calculating $9.00 - $4.35, you must perform this math action across the zeros to subtract 35 cents.
What is regrouping (or borrowing)?
Sailing for King Henry VII of England in 1497, this Italian-born explorer explored the coast of North America (Canada) and claimed land for England.
Who is John Cabot?
The correct possessive form for the irregular plural noun "children" when describing their toys.
What are "the children's toys"?
When loud noise or chaos causes a lesson to break apart or stop running smoothly, it causes this noun form of disrupt.
What is a disruption?
In the Mystery Science lesson "Why did the dinosaurs go extinct?", scientists explain that a giant asteroid impact blocked this ultimate energy source, causing plants to die off first and collapsing the entire food web.
What is sunlight (or the sun)?
A runner completes three laps with times of 14.2 seconds, 15.65 seconds, and 13.8 seconds; this is their total running time.
What is 43.65 seconds?
Sailing for both the Dutch and the English, this explorer searched for the Northwest Passage and has a major river, strait, and bay in North America named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
In the sentence "Leo and Mia's project won first place," placing a single apostrophe + S only after the final name tells the reader that Leo and Mia share this relationship to the project.
What is joint ownership (or they shared/built the project together)?
This 7-letter word describes someone in power who has become dishonest, untrustworthy, or broken down by bad behavior.
What is corrupt?