Science
Name 3 types of natural disasters
Possible answers: Volcano, hurricane, blizzard, tornado, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, droughts, tsunami, avalanche
Is this sentence an example of personification, imagery, or a metaphor? “The sun smiled down on us.”
Personification
Which number is the numerator and which one is the denominator? ½
1 is the numerator and 2 is the denominator
What is not the name of a California native group?
a) Chumash
b) Miwok
c) Maasai
d) Hupa
Maasai
Where did Miss Kane go to college?
Univerity of Southern California (USC)
Fill in the blank: Erosion is the ____________ of weathered materials.
Movement
Name one type of text feature
Possible answers: Titles, table of contents, headings, pictures, captions, diagrams
Which place value is the underlined number in? 2.14
hundredths place
Father Junipero Serra founded the missions in California. Who was he?
a) a farmer from Portugal
b) a Spanish priest
c) a teacher from Florida
b) a Spanish priest
What school does Miss London go to?
UCI (University of California, Irvine)
What is the scientific word for when “rocks on Earth’s surface break down into smaller pieces”?
Weathering
What part of speech describes or clarifies a noun?
An adjective
When something is the same on both sides, it can be described as being________?
Symmetrical
What year did the most people come to California to join the Gold Rush?
1849
Some of the students in this class performed in the play "Aladdin". What is the name of the monkey in Aladdin?
Abu
Renewable energy comes from resources that will never run out. Name one way we can get renewable energy.
Possible answers: wind/wind turbines, water/dams/water mills, sunlight/solar power/solar panels, plants/biofuels
What was the theme of “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon?”
a) Fix problems on your own
b) Be friends with a dragon
c) Be grateful for what you have
c) Be grateful for what you have
Answers: 2, 5, 1, 10
(2x5) and (1x10)
Is this the definition of longitude or latitude?
Parallel lines that run north to south from the North Pole to the South Pole. These lines measure East or West.
Longitude
Miss Kane's dad is from Japan.
Miss Kane's mom has family in a different foreign country. What other country does her family live in?
Germany
What is the name for this step in the water cycle? When the sun heats up liquid water and turns it into a gas.
Evaporation
Define the genre “expository texts”
Explains facts or information about a topic
Includes text features
This shape could be called many things. What are two math names for this shape? □
Possible answers: Square, rectangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, rhombus
Why were the missions built?
To convert the Native Americans to Catholicism. To increase European/Spanish power in a new place.
Where is the oldest city in the United States? (Name the state it is in. 100 bonus points if you can remember the name of the city.)
State: Florida
City: St. Augustine