Deserts, Dinosaurs, and Daring Settlers
Math-itude Adjustment
Science: Where the Elements Come Together
Phonics: Sounding Off on Success
Grammar Galaxy: Exploring the Universe of Language
100

Who were the original tribes of Utah?

Goshute, Paiute, Ute, Navajo, and Shoshone

100

What happens to place value as you move to the left?

It is multiplied by 10

100

What are the two main types of energy?

Kinetic and potential


100

What is phonics?

The relationship between sounds and letters

100

What is an adverb?

It is a word that describes when or how a verb was performed.

Ex: Quickly, yesterday

200

Who were the first non-native people to enter Utah?

The mountain men

200

Find the difference: 

9,000 - 5,876

3,124

200
What does Utah's rock layers and most common fossils suggest about how it looked hundreds of millions of years ago?

Utah was an ocean


200

How many vowel sounds can each syllable have?

One

200

What is noun-verb agreement?

It is choosing the correct version of a verb to fit the noun/pronoun used.

Ex: You go to the store. VS. He goes to the store.


300
What were the names of the Spanish Catholic priests that came through Utah? What were they doing here?

Father Escalante and Father Dominguez. A pathway from Santa Fe, NM to Monterey, CA

300

A bakery needs to package up all 657 cupcakes it baked. There can only be 6 cupcakes per box, how many boxes will they fill?

109 with 3 leftover

300

What are the main components of a waveform?

Amplitude, Wavelength, Frequency

300

Break this word into syllables:

Cinematographic 

Cin-em-a-tog-ra-phic OR Cin-e-ma-to-gra-phic

300

What are the two things a complete sentence needs?

Subject and predicate

400

What is the name of the 'cutoff' or shortcut that a Californian explorer mapped out and created for the Oregon trail?

The Hastings Cutoff

400

Sarah is organizing a charity event. She buys 7 tables for the event, and each table costs $45. Then, she buys 5 chairs for each table, and each chair costs $15. How much did Sarah spend in total?

$840

400

What is the definition of energy?

The ability to do work

400

What is a phoneme?

It is an individual sound

400
Identify the complete predicate in the sentence below:

The excited fourth grade class partied with music and dancing on the last day of school.

"partied with music and dancing on the last day of school."

500

There was a 'mythical' river claimed to be in Utah that connected Northern UT to San Francisco. What was its name?

Buenaventura River

500

Bob wants to buy a new bike. A new bike costs $313.

He earned $5 for each lawn he mowed, he mowed 21 lawns. 

He earns $8 for each dog he walks.

Write and solve the equation to figure out how many dogs Bob must walk in order to buy a new bike.

5 x 21 + 8 x t = $313

t = 26 dog walks 

500

What are the subtypes of kinetic energy?

(Hint: there are 7)

Electric, mechanical, sound, thermal, solar, nuclear, and chemical

500

What is a schwa?

A schwa is the unstressed vowel sound in a word, making an /u/ sound.

ex: Zebra 

500

What is a coordinating conjunction? List them.

It acts as a glue between smaller sentences/clauses. FANBOYS

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So