Science
This is known as the "Red Planet"
What is Mars?
The capital city of Australia
What is Canberra?
A triangle with all sides equal.
What is an equilateral triange?
This punctuation mark ends a sentence that asks a question.
Question Mark (?)
This explorer mapped the east coast of Australia in 1770 and claimed it for Britain.
Captain James Cook
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
The name of the famous red rock in the Northern Territory (aka Uluru).
What is Ayers Rock?
12x9
What is 108?
This is the term for a comparison using “like” or “as.”
Simile
On January 1, 1901, Australia became a federation, uniting its colonies into this number of states.
Six
The chemical symbol for gold.
What is Au?
This state is home to the Great Barrier Reef.
What is Queensland?
The value of π (pi) to two decimal places.
What is 3.14?
In the sentence “The cat chased the mouse,” this word is the verb.
Chased
This bridge, an iconic symbol of Sydney, was officially opened in 1932.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Newton's Third Law states: For every action, there is...
This island state lies to the South of Mainland Australia.
What is Tazmania?
This is the square root of 144.
What is 12?
This famous English playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet.
William Shakespeare
This woman became Australia's first female Prime Minister in 2010.
Julia Gillard
This part of the cell is known as the "powerhouse"
What is mitochondria?
This is the longest river in Australia.
What is the Murray River?
Solve for x.
2x + 5 = 17.
What is x-6?
This figure of speech gives human qualities to objects or animals.
Personification
This event on April 25 is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, honoring soldiers who served and died in wars.
Anzac Day