Grammar
This punctuation goes at the end of a sentence to indicate that someone asked a question.
What is a Question Mark
This man was elected President of the United States in 1860, spurring southern states to secede from the United States
Who was Aberham Lincoln
This 8-sided polygon is often seen in the real world as a stop sign.
What is an octagon
The star at the center of our solar system
What is The Sun
The first student in fifth grade, alphabetically speaking
Who is Rosaida Albarran
Letters used at the beginning of a sentence and for a proper noun.
What are Captial (Upper Case) Letters
This is the name given to the eleven states who left the United States of America in 1860 to form a loose government based on trade and self-defense.
What was the Confederacy
This shape is always also a rectangle, but the opposite is not necessarily true.
What is a Square
The first step in the scientific method
What is make observations.
He won the West Virginia Young Writers Contest for his submission "The Poems of Swen Ohay"
Who is Owen Shay
This is the most commonly used conjunction: used to connect similar ideas, to add onto and existing thought or to indicate intention
What is "And"
The first major military battle of the American Civil War, occurring just 30 miles to the southwest of Washington DC.
What is the Battle of Bull Run (or the Battle of Manassas)
An equilateral triangle has three sides of equal length. It also has three matching of these
What are acute angles?
The biological processes by which plants convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy that they use as food.
What is Photosynthesis
This student's last name also means "a worker who supervises and directs other workers"
What is Foreman
Words used to replace nouns in sentences, making communication more efficient and avoiding repetition.
What is a pronoun?
This man "gifted" President Lincoln approximately 25,000 bails of cotton seized from Savannah, Georgia after his successful march to the sea in December of 1864
Who is Wllliam T. Sherman
This term describes any multi-sided shape, not matter how simple or complicated.
What is a polygon.
Of the four forms of matter, this is the one not encountered in everyday life (outside of certain television sets).
What is plasma
At 11 letters, this is the longest last name among students in the fifth grade.
What is Howdershelt
Words that show the relationship between elements in a sentence. They can express relationships of place, time, direction, and other abstract or logical connections.
What is a preposition?
This person is credited for being the first African American women to lead a military operation, when she was placed in charge Union troops raiding the Combahee Ferry Junction in 1863.
Who is Harriett Tubman
This polygon has zero sides, 360 sides or infinite sides (depending on who you ask).
What is a circle.
If an object is at rest, it possesses this form of energy.
What is potential energy
The only student to have both an alliterative first / last name AND a first / last name with the same amount of syllables.
Who is Dixie Dyer