World Geography
This is the largest ocean on Earth, covering more than 30% of the planet's surface.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This process allows green plants to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
In Rick Riordan's popular book series, Percy Jackson discovers that his father is actually this Greek god of the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
This is the mathematical term for the distance around the outside edge of a 2D shape like a rectangle or triangle.
What is the perimeter?
Built thousands of years ago in Giza, Egypt, these massive stone structures served as tombs for ancient Pharaohs.
What are the Pyramids?
This imaginary line around the middle of the Earth splits the planet into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Known as the "Red Planet," this fourth planet from the Sun gets its color from iron oxide (rust) on its surface.
What is Mars?
This author wrote classic children's books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and The BFG.
Who is Roald Dahl?
This positive integer is neither prime nor composite, and any number multiplied by it equals itself.
What is 1?
This famous Italian artist and inventor painted both the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Spanning 11 time zones and two continents, this is the largest country in the world by land area.
What is Russia?
This organ in the human body pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through your circulatory system every day.
What is the heart?
n Lois Lowry's dystopian novel The Giver, 12-year-old Jonas lives in a community that has eliminated all of these, leaving everything gray.
What are colors?
In a right-angled triangle, this is the name given to the longest side opposite the 90-degree angle.
What is the hypotenuse?
Originating in ancient Greece, this athletic competition was held every four years in honor of Zeus and was revived in 1896.
What are the Olympic Games?
This African river flows north through eleven countries and is widely considered the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
In chemistry, this basic element with atomic number 1 is the most abundant element in the universe.
What is Hydrogen?
In grammar, this figurative language device compares two things directly without using "like" or "as" (e.g., "Time is a thief").
What is a metaphor?
In statistics, this term refers to the middle number in a sorted list of values (not to be confused with the mean).
What is the median?
Signed in England in 1215, this famous charter limited the power of the King and established that no one is above the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
Located between Switzerland and Italy, this famous jagged peak in the Alps shares its name with a popular triangular chocolate bar.
What is the Matterhorn?
These large pieces of Earth's crust slide, collide, and grind past each other, causing earthquakes and building mountain ranges.
What are tectonic plates?
This 19th-century author created the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Expressed as a simplified fraction, this is the result of dividing 3/4 by 1/2.
What is 3/2 or 1 1/2?
2 civilizations that had their height in South America before the colonists arrived.
Who are the Atec, Inca, and/or Maya?