8th Grade Math
In PEMDAS this is what the letter P stand for in the equation.
What is Parentheses?
The three states of matter are solid, liquid and...
What is gas?
This is when 2 different words mean the same thing.
What is a synonym?
What is the capital of the United States of America?
What is Washington D.C.
What is 1896
This is the answer for 654-43?
What is 611?
This is the only planet that we know of with life?
What is Earth?
This figure of speech is being used in this sentence “The boy felt like a lion because he was so courageous” (HINT: Starts with an "S")
What is a Simile?
How many days in a a year?
365
The year in which synchronized swimming became an Olympic sport
What is 1984
one fourth of $300
What is $75
This is the process called when plants use sunlight for energy?
What is Photosynthesis?
This is what you call a book that talks about a person's life from beginning to end.
What is an Biography
In this war, the U.S. fought itself
What is the Civil War
The first person to win seven swimming gold medals in an Olympics
Who is Mark Spitz
This is 105 divided by 7.
What is 15?
This is an area where living and nonliving things interact with one another.
What is an ecosystem?
This is a type of text which includes characters, acts, scenes and stage directions.
What is a play
Who was the 1st President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
An olympian who won an Olympic medal at age 14
who is Ian Thorpe OR who is Kyoko Iwasaki
These are the factors of 10?
What is 1,2,5 and 10?
This is an area of land that is partly covered with water or flooded at least part of each year.
What is a wetland
This is conversations between characters in a literary text usually written between quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
This is what you call when a large group of people move (or migrate) from one country to live in another.
What is Immigration
Ms. Lindblom's best swimming event
what is the 1650/mile?
Type of number with a numerator and denominator. Part of a whole.
What is a Fraction?
Name the END of an animal's life cycle.
What is death.
This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events and worlds
What is Fiction?
These people were forced to leave their homes in America after the arrival of Europeans.
Who are the Native Americans
the inventor of the swim paddle
who is Benjamin Franklin
The answer to a division problem. (hint: starts with the letter "Q")
What is a quotient?
This is an adaptation used by some animals to help hide from predators and is seen in chameleons
What is Camouflage
when an author references another work.
What is an allusion?
What is the name of the state that is referred to as the "Aloha" State?
Where is Hawaii?
The number of consecutive national titles held by Kenyon College men's swimming.
What is 31
What is the sum of -6 + 5?
-1
This is the process of when something is eroded away thanks to water or wind.
What is Erosion?
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story normally found in the last paragraph of an essay.
What is a Summary?
Where is Europe.
Coach Amy's best event
What is the 100 fly
The Least Common Multiple of 15 and 12.
What is a 60?
This is what an animal who breaks down dead things is called.
What is a decomposer?
The first sentence in a paragraph that expresses the main idea of a passage.
What is a topic sentence.
What is the shortest month of the Year?
What is February?
A race that includes both a swimming and a running component (but no biking)
what is an aquathon
This is a number sentence with 2 or more numbers, an operation and an equal sign.
What is an equation
Name the step of the water cycle in which the process turns the liquid into vapor.
What is evaporation?
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective or a verb. Example: She swims quickly. ("quickly" is the word)
What is an adverb?
What state is affectionately referred to as "The Big Apple?"
Where is New York?
The number of laps in a mile in a 25 yard pool
What is 66