Language Arts
A word that describes a noun (person, place, or thing.)
What is an adjective?
The number you get when adding all the sides of a figure.
What is the perimeter?
This type of animal eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
This event led the United States to enter World War II.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
The first President in the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The proper way to spell the day of the week before Thursday.
What is W_E_D_N_E_S_D_A_Y?
An angle that measures exactly 90 degrees.
What is a right angle?
The smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The largest planet in our Solar System.
What is Jupiter?
This playwright wrote such classic stories as Othello, McBeth, and Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A little number that means to multiply the base number by itself that many times.
What is an exponent?
Any species that is at risk of extinction because of a rapid decrease in its population.
What is an endangered species?
The branch of government ran by the President of the United States.
What is the Executive Branch?
The most handsome, best rock singer to ever live.
Who is Chris Cornell?
This author wrote this gothic poems and short stories in the late 1800s and is one Mrs. Sauter's favorite gothic writers.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The term you get when you add 9x and 5x.
What is 14x?
The planet that is known as the "third rock from the sun."
What is the Earth?
This land mass is the largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
This author wrote the Harry Potter series.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
Often used by authors to add imagery, emotion, or to emphasize a point that literal words cannot. An example would be personification.
What is figurative language?
The formula for this is a2 + b2=c2.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
The outermost layer of the Earth and the surface that we walk on.
What is the crust?
The last two states that joined the United States in 1959.
What are Hawaii and Alaska?
The deepest ocean trench in the world, measuring over 36,000 feet deep.
What is the Mariana Trench?