English
'The Leaf dances across the cloud to get away from the tree' What type of figurative language?
Personification
What is the study of "biology"
The study of life
Order these fractions from greatest to least:
2/5,6/7, 11/12, 13/15
2/5, 6/7, 13/15, 11/12
Does the U.S. government take a census every 2, 5 or 10 years
10 years
How many queen bees does a beehive ahve?
one
What the prefix mean in the words "prehistoric" and "preschool"
Mimicry
3 is to 9 as 16 is to... what?
48
Who did America win their independence from?
Great Britain
Name the 4 presidents whose faces are carved on Mount Rushmore
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt
What is connotation?
The feeling a word evokes
How many Organs are in the digestive system?
Nine
Hayley and Maxwell are jogging on a track. Haley jogs 3/4 mile in 1/6 hour. Maxwell jogs 2/3 mile in 2/15 hour. Who is faster and by how much faster?
Maxwell is 1/2 mile per hour faster than Hayley.
Which president served during the Great Depression?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
How do you escape a riptide?
by swimming parallel to shore, floating when you need a rest.
Hints the author gives you to figure out an unknown word
Context clues
What does the Coriolis effect do in the northern hemisphere?
The Coriolis Effect causes winds to curve due to the rotation of the Earth. In the Northern Hemisphere, winds are deflected to the right,
Alavaro selects a colored marble at random from a bag, records the color, and puts the marble back in the bag. After 20 trials, the experimental probability of selecting a pink marble is 1/2, selecting a yellow marble is 2/5, and selecting an orange marble is 1/10. On the 21st trial, Alavaro selects a blue marble. What is the experimental probability of selecting a pink marble based on the 21 trials?
10/21
You have to live in Missouri for how long in order to be governor?
10 years
What country is home to the pyramids and the Great Sphinx
Egypt
What are all the parts of a plot diagram?
Exposition (beginning), rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Out of the first four layers in our atmosphere which one has the coldest temperatures?
Mesosphere
Kimberly has $120 to spend at the bookstore. Kimberly buys a hardcover for $36, as well as some gift cards for her family and friends. Each gift card is $15. How many gift cards CAN Kimberly buy?
0,1,2,3,4,5
What religion practices the Four Noble Truths?
Buddhism
In 2004, what baseball team won the World Series for the first time in 86 years?
The Boston Red Sox