Grade 5 Math
If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:15 pm and arrived 35 minutes late, what time did it arrive?
3:50pm
The Canadian fur trade (1600s–1800s) was primarily a partnership and commercial exchange between who?
Indigenous People (First Nations) and Europeans (French, then British)
What would you call the central character of a story or plot?
Protagonist/main character
Any material that does not allow heat to pass through it easily is called a/an ___________.
a. conductor b. expander
c. contractor d. insulator
d. insulator
Name three of Earth's five oceans.
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic) oceans
The number of seconds in 1 hour.
3600
Find the minutes in 1 hours (60)
60 x 60 (seconds in a minute) = 3600
Which ancient civilization built the pyramids of Giza?
Ancient Egyptians
Which word is misspelled?
a. quite b. seperate c. dessert d. receipt
b. seperate should be separate
What is the fourth planet from the Sun?
Mars
What is the capital of Hawaii?
Honolulu
in the equation 32 divided by 8 equals 4, the number 4 is considered the _______________.
quotient
What structures did the Lenape people live in?
Wigwams
What kind of figurative language is in this sentence?
The spaghetti slithered around like snakes on her plate.
simile
alliteration
The __________ system is responsible for taking oxygen into the body and getting rid of carbon dioxide.
Respiratory
Which country is both an island and a continent?
Australia
3+5 x 6=?
33
What important item did Betsy Ross make when George Washington asked her to?
The first official American flag
What are describing noun words called?
Adjectives
What are animals without a backbone called?
Invertebrates
What is New Jersy's biggest natural resource?
Water
35 x 12 = ?
420
This is where Japan bombed the United States Navy on December 7, 1941. As a result, the United States entered WWII.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
The person in a novel who tells the story from a third-person perspective is called a what?
A narrator
Which is faster: sound or light?
Light
BONUS for extra 300points: How fast is the speed of light?
Which major eastern river flows right past New York City and was used heavily by early European explorers and fur traders?
Hudson River
24
16
The Battle of _______ was fought along the Delaware River, where a small force of Americans successfully defended Fort Mercer against a much larger force of Hessian soldiers.
Red Bank
What kind of figurative language is in this sentence?
You can hear the trees whisper in the dark.
Personification
What is the layer that traps heat within our atmosphere called?
Ozone Layer
The word "geothermal" comes from two ancient Greek words: geo and therme. What do these two words mean?
Earth and Heat