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What is Mrs. Ash's favorite color?

Green

100

Write the number four hundred seven thousand, two hundred ninety-five in standard form.

407,295

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45,876 + 28,439

74,315

100

A rectangular community garden in Eugene, Oregon has a length of 12 feet and a width of 8 feet. What is the perimeter of the garden?

40 feet

100

What is the capital city of Oregon?

Salem

200

Pioneers on the Oregon Trail relied heavily on a specific type of animal to pull their heavy, canvas-covered wagons across plains and rocky mountains. What animal was most commonly used?

Oxen

200

What is the pattern rule?

4,8,12,16,20....

Add 4 (or multiply the position by 4).

200

What is the difference between a first-person point of view and a third-person point of view in a story? What pronouns act as clues for each?

  • First-person: The narrator is a character in the story telling it from their own eyes. Clue pronouns: I, me, my, we.

  • Third-person: An outside narrator is telling the story about other people. Clue pronouns: he, she, they, them.

200

What is the meaning of the metaphor used in this sentence?


The morning calm on Malheur Lake was a giant mirror.


It means the surface of the lake was incredibly still, flat, smooth, and reflective.

200

What famous geographic landmark in Oregon holds the record for being the deepest lake in the United States? How was it formed?

Crater Lake Explanation: It was formed around 7,700 years ago when a massive volcano named Mount Mazama erupted violently and collapsed in on itself, creating a deep caldera that filled with rainwater and melted snow over centuries.

300

62,305 - 14,826

47,479

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Oregon became the 33rd state to join the United States. In what year did Oregon officially achieve statehood?

1859 (specifically February 14, 1859)

300

What month is Mrs. Ash's birthday?

April

300

What does it mean to identify the theme of a story?

The theme is the underlying message, lesson, or moral about life that the author wants the reader to learn.

300

What is Mrs. Ash's daughter's name?

Taylee

400

When reading an informational article about how Oregon's timber industry works, you see a caption under a photograph. What is the purpose of this text feature?

Caption: Explains what is happening in the photograph or graphic.

400

An Oregon salmon fisher caught a fish that weighed 12 pounds. How many ounces did the salmon weigh?

192 ounces

400

The Crater Lake National Park gift shop sold 342 sweatshirts last winter. If each sweatshirt cost $9, exactly how much money did the shop make from sweatshirt sales?

$3,078

400

A Portland bakery packages its famous marionberry marion-tarts in boxes of 6. If they baked 435 tarts on Saturday morning, how many full boxes can they pack, and how many extra tarts will be left over?

72 full boxes with 3 tarts left over

400

Imagine a fast-moving river flowing down the side of the Cascade Range. Over thousands of years, what will most likely happen to the rock and soil at the bottom of the river canyon? What is this process called?

The river will carve a deeper, wider canyon by carrying the rock and soil away. This process is called erosion.

500

Name at least two Native American tribes that are indigenous to the land we now call Oregon

Nez Perce (Nimiipuu), Klamath, Modoc, Paiute, Chinook, Tillamook, Umpqua, Cayuse, Wasco, Coos, or Kalapuya.

500

Oregon shares a land border with four other US states. Name them.

Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and California.

500

In the 1840s, thousands of pioneers traveled west on the Oregon Trail. What city in Missouri was the primary jumping-off point where the trail began, and in which fertile Oregon valley did the trail finally end?

It began in Independence, Missouri and ended in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

500

Rewrite this sentence using correct capitalization and punctuation:


last summer my family went to see the pacific ocean in newport oregon


Last summer, my family went to see the Pacific Ocean in Newport, Oregon.

500

What major river flows along the northern border of Oregon, separating it from the state of Washington?

The Columbia River.