Geography
Specials
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Social Studies
Potpourri
100
This the crew that was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1522.
Who were Magellan's crew?
100
This is the genre that blends actual historical facts/people with fiction.
What is historical fiction?
100
This is the type of fiction that has unrealistic characters and plots.
What is fantasy?
100
They were responsible for the Boston Tea Party.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
100
This is the capital of the United States.
What is Washington DC?
200
These are the two oceans on the east and west of the contiguous United States.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean?
200
This is what it means for something to be symmetrical.
What is it can be folded so that the two parts match?
200
This is the horizon line.
What is where the Earth and sky appear to come together?
200
This is the amount of justices who serve on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
200
This is the first person to walk on the moon and the year in which he did it.
Who is Neil Armstrong in 1969?
300
These are the two states that are outside of the contiguous United States.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
300
In art, this is value.
What is the lightness or darkness of color?
300
This is what Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are often called.
What is Gas Giants or Gaseous Planets?
300
This was the president who freed the slaves.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
This is the author of the Harry Potter series.
Who is J K Rowling?
400
This is the body of water that the Mississippi River flows into.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
This is the highest singing voice.
What is soprano?
400
This is what you call an area where all of the living and nonliving things interact together.
What is an ecosystem?
400
He was the Commander-in-Chief of the colonial army.
Who was George Washington?
400
This gives us evidence about plants and animals that lived long ago and how the environment was at that time.
What are fossils?
500
These are the five Great Lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
500
This is the listing of works at the end of a research paper.
What is a bibliography?
500
This is a story in which you write about your own experiences.
What is a personal narrative?
500
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
500
This is the idea of giant plates of rock moving slowly across Earth's surface.
What is plate tectonics?