1st GRADE
These words should always be capitalized
What are proper nouns?
The first U.S. president
Who is George Washington?
These lakes are known as the Great Lakes
What are Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior?
The plural of moose
What is "moose"?
The three branches of government
What are executive, legislative, and judicial?
The Richter Scale measures this characteristic of earthquakes
What is magnitude?
Rain and snow are a form of this
What is precipitation?
This is the 14th letter of the alphabet
What is "n"?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: A short story, often including a moral lesson and animals with human qualities
What is a fable?
This country gifted the U.S. The Statue of Liberty
What is France?
555 minutes in hours and minutes
What is 9 hours and 15 minutes?
A diverging mirror in which the reflective surface bulges towards the light source
What is a convex mirror?
The name for groups of words that have contradictory meanings
What are antonyms?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
These three letters are in every day of the week
What are "d", "a", and "y"?
The three different states of matter
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
Mnemonic device for the order of operations in mathematics
What is "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally"?
This meridian splits the world into eastern and western hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
Landform is made primarily of ice
What is a glacier?
Earth is located in this galaxy
What is The Milky Way?
The mean of 9, 3, 4, and 2
What is 4.5?
The name of a collection of classical stories related to religion or cultural traditions
What is mythology?
The island which is considered both as an island and a continent
What is Australia?
These historical figures are on Mount Rushmore
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln?
This force pulls objects to the ground
What is gravity?
This is what a meteorologist studies
What is weather?
The number of months in the calendar year that have exactly 30 days
What is 4?
It takes Earth this amount of time to rotate on its axis
What is 24 hours/1 day?
The syllable structure of a haiku
What is "5-7-5"?
Photosynthesis occurs in this area of plants
What are the chloroplasts?