Maths
What is the value of the digit 7 in the number 54.783?
0.7
Read the sentence below.
The exhausted runner collapsed onto the grass after the race.
What does the word exhausted mean?
Very tired
What is the main job of the human heart?
To pump blood around the body, carrying oxygen, nutrients and waste products.
How often does the World Cup take place?
Every 4 years
What is the capital city of Scotland?
Edinburgh
A triangle has two angles measuring 48° and 67°.
What is the size of the third angle?
180° − (48° + 67°)
= 180° − 115°
= 65°
Which of the following is a complex sentence?
A. The dog barked loudly.
B. The dog barked, and the cat ran away.
C. Although the dog barked loudly, the baby stayed asleep.
D. The barking dog chased the cat.
C. Although the dog barked loudly, the baby stayed asleep.
Explain the difference between boiling and evaporation.
Boiling happens throughout a liquid at a fixed temperature (its boiling point), while evaporation only happens at the surface of a liquid and can occur at any temperature.
Who won the last World Cup?
Argentina
What is a loch?
A lake
Look at the sequence:
6, 12, 18, 24, 30, ...
What is the Nth term rule for this sequence?
6n
Read the sentence.
The classroom was a volcano waiting to erupt.
What does the writer mean by this metaphor?
The classroom was full of excitement and likely to become noisy or chaotic.
The food chain below is found in a pond:
Algae → Snail → Fish → Heron
What is the original source of energy for this food chain?
The Sun
What stage did Korea reach in the 2002 World Cup?
Semi-Finals (They finished 4th)
Scotland, England, and Wales are collectively known as what place?
Great Britain
A right-angled triangle has a base of 18 cm and a height of 12 cm.
What is its area?
Area = (base × height) ÷ 2
= (18 × 12) ÷ 2
= 216 ÷ 2
= 108 cm²
Lena glanced at the dark clouds gathering above. She zipped up her coat, picked up her umbrella without saying a word, and hurried towards the bus stop.
What can you infer about Lena?
She thinks it is going to rain soon.
An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. She travels to the Moon, where gravity is much weaker.
a) What happens to her mass?
b) What happens to her weight?
a) Her mass stays at 70 kg.
b) Her weight decreases.
Which player has won the World Cup the most times?
Pele (3 times; 1958, 1962, 1970)
Which sport was invented in Scotland in the 15th century (1400s)?
Golf
A bag contains:
One counter is chosen at random.
a) What is the probability of picking a red counter?
b) What is the probability of picking either a red or a blue counter?
c) Explain why you can add these probabilities together.
Total counters = 12
a) 5/12
b) 9/12 = 3/4
c) Because a counter cannot be red and blue at the same time, the events are mutually exclusive, so their probabilities can be added together.
The ancient castle, which stood silently on the hill, watched over the village like an old guardian.
Identify the relative clause in the sentence.
"which stood silently on the hill"
A scientist wants to investigate how water temperature affects the time it takes for sugar to dissolve.
- The independent variable
- The dependent variable
- Two control variables
Independent variable: Water temperature.
Dependent variable: Time taken for the sugar to dissolve.
Control variables: (Any two) Amount of sugar, volume of water, type of sugar, stirring speed, size of the container.
How many teams are playing in this World Cup?
48 teams
What is the name of Scotland's flag (clue, it sounds similar to the common name of sodium chloride)
Saltire