5 x 8 =
What is 40?
This part of speech is a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
This force pulls everything toward the center of the Earth and keeps us from floating into space.
What is gravity?
This is the layer of air that surrounds Earth and helps us breathe.
What is the atmosphere?
A polygon with four equal sides and four right angles.
What is a square?
This is the sentence in an essay that clearly states the writer’s main argument or claim.
What is a thesis sentence?
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
These are words or phrases like “first,” “next,” and “finally” that help organize writing.
What are transition words?
The answer to a division problem is called this.
What is the quotient?
The lesson or message in a story.
What is the theme?
These are the three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
If a book costs $8.75 and you pay with a $20 bill, how much change do you get back?
What is $11.25?
A number that has only two factors: 1 and itself.
What is a prime number?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like “to,” “two,” and “too.”
What are homophones?
This body system pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
This is the narrator’s attitude or feeling about the topic they’re writing about.
What is tone?
A student has 2/3 of a chocolate bar and gives away 1/6. How much chocolate does the student have left?
What is 1/2?
This is the technique authors use to give hints or clues about what will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
This simple machine has a wheel and a rope and helps lift heavy objects.
What is a pulley?
Although it's covered in ice, this is the largest desert on Earth because it gets very little precipitation.
What is the Antarctic Desert?