What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
Carbon Dioxide
What is the longest river in the US?
Missouri River
What is the tallest mammal on Earth?
Giraffe
What is a hyperbole?
An exaggeration to show emphasis
How many ammendments are in the Bill of Rights?
10
What is the process of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly called?
Metamorphosis
What is the capital of Russia?
Moscow
What do you call a group of lions?
Pride
A work, phrase or sequence that reads the same forward and backward is called what?
Palindrome
What is the name of the speech that begins:
"Four score and seven years ago..."
The Gettysburg Address
Density describes the mass of an object divided by what?
Volume
What is the name of the largest island in the world?
Greenland
What is the largest mammal in the world?
Blue Whale
A group of lines within a poem is called what?
Stanza
What was the name of the US government program to put a man on the moon?
Apollo Program
If a car is driving 40 mph, how long will it take to go 190 miles?
4 hours and 45 minutes
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
What type of animal is a koala?
Marsupial
What is the root word of the word "indecision"?
Decide
What is the name of the trade route that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas?
The Middle Passage
What do you call a habitat where fresh and salt water mix?
Estuary
How many countries are there in Africa?
54
What is the smallest fish in the world?
Dwarf Minnow
What is a part of a sentence that tells what the subject is or does called?
i.e. The cat is sleeping. What is the part of sentence "is sleeping" called?
Predicate
Which ancient civilization is credited with developing one of the earliest known writing systems called cuneiform?
The Sumerians