Science
What part of a plant takes in water from the soil?
The roots
How many cents are in a dollar?
100 cents
Which direction does the Sun rise?
The east
Where do commas belong in the following date sequence? Monday July 8th 2023
Monday, July 8th, 2023
What do we call people who lived before written history?
Prehistoric people
What is the blood type referred to as the universal recipient?
AB
What is the place value of the 5 in the number 3,458?
The tens place
What separates the Earth into Western and Eastern hemispheres?
The Prime Meridian
How many consonants are in the word “acronym”?
Four
Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
Which organ in the human body filters blood and removes waste?
Kidneys
What is the value of this expression:
(3x8)+(45/5)?
33
What is the largest desert in the world?
The Antarctic desert
What kind of word describes how, where, or when?
Adverb
Which famous ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1912?
The Titanic
What is the layer of Earth where earthquakes happen?
The mantle
50
Which two countries border Costa Rica?
Nicaragua and Panama
“As pretty as a picture” is an example of what type of figure of speech?
Simile
What ancient civilization built Machu Picchu?
The Inca civilization
To the nearest thousand, how fast is the speed of light in miles per second?
186 thousand miles per second
What is the smallest prime number?
2
11
What is the subordinating conjunction in the following sentence? “They lost the competition because they didn’t practice.”
Because
Nicolas Copernicus, the legendary 16th-century astronomer, was born in what country?
Poland