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?
The capital of the United States of America?
What is Washington D.C.?
The name of Gateway's mascot.
What is Gabby Gator?
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”
What is a simile?
Days in a year
365.25
The names of the principal and all three assistant principals.
Who are Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Dentzer, Mrs. Ferguson and Mrs. Georgeson?
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 a biography?
In this war, the U.S. fought itself
What is the Civil War?
The year Gateway opened.
What is 2014?
This is 105 divided by 7.
What is 15?
This is the term for light bending.
What is refraction?
This is a type of text which includes characters, acts, scenes and stage directions.
What is a play?
The 2nd President of the United States
Who was John Adams?
The school's street address.
What is 6550 Lonetree Blvd.?
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 it when someone moves (or migrates) from one country to live in another.
What is immigration?
6552-226
What is Mrs. Moon's room number?
Type of number with a numerator and denominator. Part of a whole.
What is a Fraction?
This is Newton's Third Law of Motion.
What is "every action has an equal, opposite reaction"?
This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events and worlds
What is fiction?
The state flower of California.
What is the California poppy?
The number of 8th graders as of today.
What is 82?
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 (not plagiarism, not quotation!)
What is an allusion?
The state bird of California.
What is the California quail?
The number of students at Gateway (TK-8)
What is 1106?
The sum of -6 + 5
-1
This is the process of when something is worn away thanks to water, ice or wind.
What is weathering?
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?
The country in which Stockholm is located.
What is Sweden?
The pet(s) Mrs. Conroy has (double points if you can name it/them!)
1 cat named Miyu
The Least Common Multiple of 15 and 12.
What is 60?
This is what an organism 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?
The shortest month of the year.
What is February?
The disease Mrs. Conroy has had 7 times.
What is chickenpox?
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?
The state affectionately referred to as "The Big Apple".
Where is New York?
The number of doors in 6554 (double doors count as two; bathroom stalls and the elevator don't count)
What is 49?