Geometry
Measurement/Unit Rate
English
Ancient Mesopotamia
Cells
100
There is a rectangle with a base of 3 inches and a height of 4 inches. What is the area? 

12 square inches

100

Put these measurements in order of smallest to largest: 

inch, millimeter, yard, foot

millimeter, inch, foot, yard

100

Figurative language that means comparing two things with "like" or "as." 

Simile.

100

What caused people to move from hunting and gathering to living in cities?

The Agricultural Revolution (Neolithic Revolution) 

100

Give an example of a living, nonliving, and a once living thing. 

(Answers will vary). 

200

There is a triangle with a base of 5 cm. and a height of 4 cm. What is the area?

(5 x 4) / 2 = 10 square cm.

200

Zion eats 12 jelly beans in 4 seconds. How many jelly beans does he eat per second? 

12 jelly beans divided by 4 seconds. That would be 3 jelly beans per second. 

200

Give an example of personification. 

(varying acceptable answers)

200

What is Hammurabi's Code?

Hammurabi's Code is one of the first written set of laws that applied to a whole society. 

200

What is the difference between a living thing and a nonliving thing (related to cells).

Living things have cells. Nonliving things do not. 

300

How do you measure surface area of a shape? 

Find the area of all the faces and then add them together. 

300

There are 12 inches in 1 foot. If Ms. Ma is five feet, how many inches is she? 

12 inches = 1 foot. 

___ inches = 5 feet. 

12 x 5 = 60 inches.

300

What is this an example of?

Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh
As you shoot across the sky

This is a metaphor. 

300

What was the name of the written language in ancient Mesopotamia?

Cuneiform

300

What is the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell? 

Plant cells have cell walls and chloroplasts. Animal cells do not. 

400

What is this shape called? 

Triangular Prism

400

Yadira reads 40 pages of manga in 10 minutes. How many pages does she read in 5 minutes? 

5 minutes is half of 10 minutes. So she reads half of 40 pages, which is 20 pages. 

(there are other possible methods) 

400

What is grammatically wrong with the following sentence: 

"I'm a turtle" said Donatello. "But I ate glowing lettuce"

It is missing a comma between turtle and the quotation mark. It is also missing a period between lettuce and the last quotation mark. 

"I'm a turtle," said Donatello. "But I ate glowing lettuce." 

400

What was the government like in Ancient Mesopotamia? 

(president? king? queen? Congress? etc.)

It was ruled by a king, but there was an assembly of citizens who could tell the king "no." 

400

What does the mitochondria do? 

Generates energy for the cell. 

500

How do you find the VOLUME of this shape:

Multiply length x width x height. 

[ 4 x 12 x 3 = 144 cubed units. ] unnecessary to do the actual calculation. 

500

Damion runs 24 meters on a treadmill in 8 minutes. How many meters does he run in the first 5 minutes? 

Find the unit rate - how many meters does he run in 1 minute? 

24 meters = 8 min.

__ meters = 1 min. 

__ meters = 5 min.

24/ 8 = 4 meters per minute. 

4 x 5 = 20 meters in 5 minutes. 

500

Type out the correct way to fix this sentence in chat: 

salva and nya only met at the end of the book it is mind-blowing when it got revealed

Salva and Nya only met at the end of the book. It was mind-blowing when it got revealed. 

500

Describe the classes in Ancient Mesopotamia

At the top were kings. Then there are priests and priestesses. The upper class were educated workers like architects and scribes. The lower class were physical workers like fishermen, soldiers, and farmers. The lowest class was made up of slaves. 
500

What is the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? 

Prokaryotic cells are simpler. They do not have as many organelles as a eukaryotic cell. 

Prokaryotic cells have: nucleoid, cytoplasm, cell membrane. 

Eukaryotic cells have: lots of organelles, including a nucleus.