5th grade Math
5th Grade Science
5th Grade Riddles
5th Grade Alphabetizing
5th Grade ELA
5th Grade Social Studies
100

163 + 939 + 746=?

1,848

100

What is this a depiction of?

An atom.

100

The more you have of it, the less you see. 

What is darkness?

100

Put in alphabetical order:
fret, froth, frame, fruit, friction

frame, fret, friction, froth, fruit
100

Under, over, beyond, behind, and across are examples.

What is a preposition?

100

Which country is highlighted?

What is India?

200

1,000,000 - 472,968=?

527,032

200

The center of an atom

What is the nucleus?

200

It is yours but is mostly used by others

What is your name?

200

Put in alphabetical order:
weigh, wrath, wide, waver, weave

waver, weave, weigh, wide, wrath

200

Exotic, three, purple, and tiny are examples of this

What is an adjective?

200

The sixth president of the United States

Who was John Quincy Adams?

300

6/8+9/12=?

6/4,or 1 1/2

300

Formed when atoms combine

What are molecules?

300

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, it becomes this

What is wet?

300

Put in alphabetical order:
neighbor, many, native, muscle, make

make, many, muscle, native, neighbor

300

evening : dusk :: morning : ________

What is dawn?

300

Where Benjamin Franklin was born 

What is England?

400

2/7-:4/5=?

5/14

400

The only known metal that is liquid at room temperature

What is mercury?

400

Forwards I'm heavy, but backwards I'm not.   

What is "ton"?

400

Put in alphabetical order:
horde, favor, gall, halfway, fountain, giver, hiker

favor, foundation, gall, giver, halfway, hiker, horde

400

The reference source would you use to find the longitude of Calcutta, India

What is an atlas?

400

Name four states that start with "New". 

What are New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York?

500

How many feet in a mile? 

5,280 feet. 

500

The organ where most of digestion takes place, as food is broken down and nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream

What is the small intestine? 

500

It has four wheels and flies

What is a garbage truck?

500

Put in alphabetical order:
white, whole, wisdom, whim, whose, wider

wider, wisdom, whim, white, whole, whose

500

The words "challenging" and "effortless" have this relationship

What are antonyms?

500

Yellowstone National Park largely located in this state 

WHat is Wyoming?

600

4.61 xx3.78

17.4258

600

The primary source of matter and energy entering most food chains 

What are plants?

600

This has a forest but no trees, cities but no people, and rivers but no water

What is a map?

600

Put in alphabetical order:
cross, chasm, clink, chore, cram, chrome, cake

cake, chasm, chrome, chore, clink, cram, cross

600

What book begins with the sentence "There was once a boy called Milo who didn't know what to do with himself – not just sometimes but always.”

What is The Phantom Tollbooth?

600

It was the forced relocation of roughly 100,000 Native Americans from the Southeast region of the United States to territory west of the Mississippi River.

 What was The Trail of Tears?

700

Miss Jones gave her students the number 30,808 and asked them to write the number in expanded form. Chance wrote (3 x 10,000) + (8 x 10) + (8 x 1). Adele wrote (3 x 10,000) + (8 x 100) + (8 x 1). Who is correct? 


Who is Adele?

700

The gradual wearing away of something, like rocks, by wind, water, or other natural agents.

What is erosion?

700

It appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years?

What is the letter m?

700

Put in alphabetical order:
street, steam, sheet, seam, straight, stamina, shack

seam, shack, sheet, stamina, steam, straight, street

700

This book contains the quote: “Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.”

What is The One and Only Ivan?

700

In World War II, these three great Allied powers formed a Grand Alliance that was the key to victory.

What were Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union? 

800

Terrance and his three friends earned $359 in August, $522 in July, and $420 in September selling lemonade. How much would they each earn if they divided their earnings equally?


What is $325.25?

$359 + $522 + $420=$1,301

$1301/4 =$325.25

800

The air we breathe is made up mostly of this gas

What is nitrogen gas?

800

I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow's in the middle.   

What is a dictionary?

800

Put in alphabetical order:
hammock, gasket, barrel, widget, binge, itchy, ferret, edgier 

barrel, binge, edgier, ferret, gasket, hammock, itchy, widget

800

The first chapter of this book begins “Sophie couldn’t sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right on her pillow”







What is The BFG?

800

The first internal tax levied on American colonists by British parliament, imposing a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.

 What is the Stamp Act?

900

A beetle is about 3/4 of an inch long. A rattlesnake is about 30 times longer. How long is a rattlesnake?


What is 22.5 or 22 1/2 inches?

3/4 of an inch is .75 x 1 inch

30 x .75 = 22.5 inches

900

 . A glass contains 300 grams of water. A student puts 25 grams of sugar in the water. The student then stirs the water until the sugar is no longer visible. What is the mass of the mixture in the glass?


What is 325 grams?

900

 A rooster is sitting on the roof of a barn facing west. If it laid an egg, would the egg roll to the north or to the south?

What is neither? A rooster cannot lay eggs

900

Put in alphabetical order:
pocket, plead, praise, plaid, peace, packet, phase, picket

packet, peace, phase, picket, plaid, plead, pocket, praise

900

Warsaw, Poland is the setting of this book. Janina and Misha are main characters.

What is Milkweed?

900

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

What is the beginning of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence?