US Colonization
Age of Exploration
Parts of Speech
Math
AK Vegetation
Anything Goes
Navigation
100
John Rolfe saved Jamestown by cultivating this crop.
What is tobacco?
100
Name the three motives for European exploration.
What is Gold, God, and Glory.
100
Which part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?
What is a noun.
100
Find the volume of the following figure.
What is 224 units3.
100
Harvested in the spring this plant is high in iron, potassium, and vitamins A, B, and C.
What is fiddlehead fern.
100
Red fish, blue fish, one fish, two fish is a line by this famous author.
What is Dr. Seuss.
100
A navigation tool that allows explorers to tell what direction they were going.
What is a compass.
200
This word was transcribed on a tree in the empty colony of Roanoke.
What is Croatoan?
200
This explorer set out to find a mysterious new land that was said to be richly forested.
What is Lief Erikson.
200
Which part of speech describes a noun or a pronoun?
What is an adjective.
200
Add the following fraction.
What is 1 and 5/12.
200
These berries are a good dietary sources of natural antioxidants and are popularly eaten by young children.
What is crowberry (Empetrum nigrum).
200
When you combine two words with an apostrophe it is called this.
What is a contraction.
200
The Drakar and Knarr are examples of what kind of ship?
What is the Longship.
300
This group of colonies had mild winters, fertile soil, and long growing season. They were known as the "Breadbasket Colonies"
What is the Middle Colonies.
300
North and South America are named after this Italian explorer.
What is Amerigo Vespucci.
300
Which part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb?
What is an adverb.
300
Divide the following fraction:
What is 1 and 1/5.
300
This plant blooms in late spring and early summer.
What is Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum).
300
A ferret is part of this animal family.
What is the Mustelidae or weasel family.
300
A navigational method used by the Norseman that did not use a compass.
What is dead reckoning.
400
The name of the first document where colonists claimed a right to govern themselves.
What is the Mayflower Compact.
400
Portuguese navigator who circumnavigated the globe.
What is Ferdinand Magellan.
400
Which part of speech is used to join words or groups of words?
What is a conjunction.
400
Solve the following.
9 ( 9 x 6 + 7 ^2 ) - 5
What is 922.
400
Often used as an ornamental plant in garden, this deadly plant produces red and white berries.
What is a baneberry (Actaea pachypoda).
400
"Don't panic" is the famous line in the novel where 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything by this author.
What is Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
400
An illness sailors got while at sea from a lack of Vitamin C.
What is scurvy.
500
This type of charter was used to establish the colony of Pennsylvania.
What is a proprietary colony.
500
Conquistador who took control of the Inca Empire.
What is Francisco Pizarro.
500
Which part of speech are the words “in,” “out,” “about,” “at,” “toward,” and “of”?
What is prepositions.
500
A certain shade of paint is made by mixing 5 parts blue paint with 2 parts white paint. To get the correct shade, how many quarts of white paint should be mixed with 8.5 quarts of blue paint?
What is 3.4 quarts.
500
This poisonous green plant can be found in moist open woods, low meadows, and stream banks.
What is False Hellebore (Veratrum species)?
500
Often used in pottery, the artistic process of layering colors and scratching the top layer off to reveal the colors beneath is called this.
What is Sgraffito.
500
This navigational tool measures the height of the sun or star above the horizon and help sailors tell how far north or south of the equator they had sailed.
What is astrolabe.