Language Arts
What is the term for a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and spelling?
What is a homophone?
What do we call a whole number that is not a fraction and can be positive, negative, or zero?
What is an integer?
What is the chemical formula for water?
What is H2O?
What is the name of the document that outlines the fundamental laws and principles that govern the United States?
What is the Constitution?
In which sport do players hit a shuttlecock back and forth over a net?
What is badminton?
What do we call a word that describes an action, state, or occurrence?
What is a verb?
What is the term for a number’s distance from zero on a number line, regardless of direction?
What is absolute value?
What type of rock is formed from the cooling and solidification of magma or lava?
What is igneous rock?
Which U.S. state was the last to join the Union, becoming the 50th state in 1959?
What is Hawaii?
What does the acronym "BMI" stand for in health and fitness?
What is Body Mass Index?
What is the literary term for a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
What is a simile?
What do we call an angle that measures exactly 90 degrees?
What is a right angle?
What do we call the process by which animals shed their skin, exoskeleton, or fur?
What is molting?
What is the term for the economic system in which trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state?
What is capitalism?
What is the main muscle used when doing a squat?
What is the quadriceps?
In a story, what do we call the struggle between opposing forces that drives the plot?
What is conflict?
What is the term for the property of addition and multiplication where the order of the numbers does not change the result?
What is the commutative property?
What part of the plant conducts water and nutrients from the roots to the rest of the plant?
What is the xylem?
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is the name of the exercise that strengthens the core by holding the body in a straight position, supported by the arms or forearms?
What is a plank?
What is the term for the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a story?
What is foreshadowing?
What is the name of the theorem that states that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides in a right-angled triangle?
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
What is the law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed?
What is the law of conservation of energy?
What is the name of the series of conflicts between Christians and Muslims over control of the Holy Land during the medieval period?
What are the Crusades?
What is the term for the maximum amount of oxygen your body can use during intense exercise, often referred to as a measure of cardiovascular fitness?
What is VO2 max?