Math
What is 6 x 8
What is 48
This famous document, signed in 1776, announced the colonies' separation from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
"The giant ate a tremendous amount of food," this italics word means "extremely large."
What is tremendous?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession, as in "The dog's bone" or "The children's toys."
What is an apostrophe?
This is the process plants use to turn sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food.
What is photosynthesis?
In the fraction 3/4, this number is the numerator
what is 3
This legislative branch of the U.S. government is made up of two parts: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is Congress?
This part of a dictionary entry, often abbreviated as a two- or three-letter code (like n., v., or adj.), tells you if a word is a noun, verb, or adjective.
What is the part of speech?
A word that describes a noun is called this part of speech, like the words "fluffy," "blue," or "fast."
What is an adjective?
The three states of matter are solid, liquid, and this gas.
What is gas?
The value of the digit 5 in the number 3,529 is what number?
What is 500
Named for the Native American tribe that helped them, this group of English settlers founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims/Puritans?
When you read a story and determine who is telling it, such as a character inside the story using "I" or "me," you are identifying this literary device.
What is the point of view?
When two words sound the same but have different meanings and spellings—for example, "to" and "too," or "their" and "there"—they are called this.
What is a homophone?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet" and is the fourth planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
This is the mathematical term for a four-sided polygon
What is a quadrilateral?
A person who makes a long, often dangerous, journey to a new place to live there is called this.
What is a pioneer or immigrant?
In a non-fiction book, these text features—found either at the beginning or the very end—help you quickly find specific topics, chapters, or page numbers.
What are the table of contents and the index?
This is the name for a group of words that express a complete thought and must contain a subject and a verb.
What is a sentence?
A scientist who studies stars, planets, and space is called this.
What is an astronomer?
You use this operation to find the difference between two numbers.
What is subtraction?
This powerful river was the primary "highway" for trade and travel across the central United States in the 1800s.
What is the Mississippi River?
This literary term describes the lesson about life or the moral the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is the theme?
This type of sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
If you drop an apple, this force pulls it toward the Earth.
What is gravity?