6th Grade Science
Complete the sentence:
_______ are the basic units of heredity and determine the traits passed from parent to offspring.
Genes
What is 64 ?
1,296
What are the two components that make up the setting of a story?
Time and Place
What is the name for the word a pronoun replaces?
Antecedent
What is the name of the monarch or leader in ancient Egypt?
Pharoah
Complete the sentence:
_____________ are formed when hot molten rock cools and solidifies.
Igneous Rocks
Simplify the following expression:
5(3x + 4) - 10
15x + 10
What do we call the lesson or moral of a story?
Theme
Where is the appositive in the following section?
World War II, a global conflict, lasted from 1939 to 1945. It was fought by many countries including France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.
a global conflict
What ancient civilization built temples called "ziggurats?"
Mesopotamia
What are the three main subatomic particles found in atoms?
Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons
Find the mean of the following data set:
34, 53, 29, 60, 126
60.4
What are the four author's purposes?
To Inform
To Explain
To Entertain
To Persuade
What is an indefinite or vague pronoun?
A pronoun that does not refer to any specific person, place, thing, etc. It includes words like everybody, nobody, everyone, etc.
Name one major city-state in ancient Greece.
Athens, Sparta, Delphi, Corinth, Argos, Syracuse, Thebes, Rhodes, etc.
What main two forces create metamorphic rocks?
Heat and Pressure
Multiply the following:
562.24 X 26.79 =
15,062.4096 or rounded amount 15,062.41
What are the groups of line or paragraphs in a poem called?
Stanzas
What is personification?
Giving human atributes to things that are not human...
Name one of the two main deserts in China.
Gobi Desert
Taklamakan Desert
What are the three main types of volcanoes?
Composite or Stratovolcanoes, Shield, and Cinder Cones
Divide the following:
1,296.4 / 51.2
25.32 or equivalent...
What are the four basic types of literary writing?
Narrative, Descriptive, Expository, and Argumentative
What does the Greek/Latin root "port" mean and give an example of a word that uses it in a sentence.
Port means "to carry"
The suitcase was portable.
Report, Support, Transport, Import, Export...
What was the name of the rectangular military formation used by the ancient Greeks?
Phalanx