This word starts with a (f) and means something strong or violent.
What is fierce?
100
At the end of a sentence is where these 3 marks belong.
What is a period, a question mark, and an exclamation point?
200
The city of Chicago is located on the shores of this lake.
What is Lake Michigan?
200
This type of matter can be poured into a container.
What is a liquid?
200
This literary elements uses animals or things acting or talking in ways that people do.
What is personification?
200
A synonym for rapid.
What is fast?
200
This type of word shows action or the state of being.
What is a verb
300
The U.S. government has 3 branches, the Executive, the Judicial, and _________________ branch.
What is the Legislative Branch.
300
If you heat water to the boiling temperature the water changes into this.
What is a gas?
300
This is a strategy for understanding unfamiliar words.
What is use a dictionary or look for context clues?
300
The meaning for this word is - broke into pieces.
What is shattered?
300
This type of word describes a noun.
What is an adjective.
400
This state is a neighbor of Illinois.
What is Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, or Kentucky?
400
How can you change water into a solid?
What is by freezing it (below 32 degrees F)
400
The name for the location and time a story takes place.
What is the setting?
400
Drawings that are done quickly.
What are sketches?
400
An analogy shows the relationship between words or ideas. An example is lodge is to beaver as hive is to bee. Complete the following analogy...
fish is to pond as birds is to ______________-
What are trees?
500
Name a major crop grown on Illinois farms.
What is corn or soybeans?
500
The molecular in a solid are arranged in a way that makes a solid heavy.
What is the molecules are close together.
500
Words that sound the same but have different meanings are called this. An example is I and eye.
What are homophones?
500
Ideas that are offered for others to think about.
What are suggestions?
500
Contrations are made when two words are put together in a shortened form. The contration for could not is this.