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100

Use an english idiom in a sentence.

It's raining cats and dogs outside.

100

What is vanilla made from?

Vanilla Bean

100
What are the plants and animals of an ecosystem referred to as?

Flora and Fauna

100

Name all 5 oceans on earth.

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Antarctic ocean.

100

This mineral is used to write on blackboards.

Chalk

200

What is an abstract noun? Give 3 examples.

An abstract noun is one that is not physical and therefore cannot be perceived in the physical world. Examples are a job, freedom, and love.

200

This class of animal are terrestrial predators that are notorious for being 'creepy crawlies'.

Arachnids

200

This diagram refers to the system and relationships of organisms in a particular ecosystem.

Food Webs

200

What are the largest set of lakes in the world knows as?

The Great Lakes

200

Unscramble the letters:

N.E.P.A

PANE

300

Create compound adjectives from the following:

A conversation that was 15 seconds.

A man with long hair.

A conversation that provoked thinking.

A fifteen-second conversation.

A long-haired man.

A thought-provoking conversation.

300

What is Canada's national animal?

A Beaver.

300

This world organization works to create and set standards for humanitarian and environmental standards. 

The United Nations

300

Name one country who is one of the leaders in water desalination.

Saudi Arabia, Israel, Kuwait, United Emirates

300

What is the tool used by blacksmiths to hammer metal?

Anvil

400

What are the three parts to a noun-phrase? Give an example.

The determiner, the adjective/modifier, and the head-noun. 

The well-dressed lady. 

400

What is the most conductive metal?

Silver?

400

What are two terms for an organism at the top of their food chain?

Tertiary Consumer, Apex Predator

400

These kinds of ecosystems (forests) grow around tropical regions near the equator, especially in Asia.

Mangrove Forests

500

What is the difference between past perfect and past continuous? Give two sentences to exemplify each and explain when we use each.

Past Perfect - denoting an action completed prior to some past point of time specified or implied, formed in English by had and the past participle, as in he had gone by then. 

Past Continuous - refers to/denotes those actions/events that were happening for a particular time in the past. I was washing the dishes. 


500
What was the name of the bird who's fossils were first discovered?

Archaopteryx

500

Where was Phil's favorite place to scuba dive?

Cozumel

500

What's the southern most country in the world?

Argentina

500

This word is a system to ecosystem. 

Biome