Magnetism
Figurative Language
Explorers
Geography
Math
100

These are the strongest parts of a magnet.

What are the North and South poles?

100

"Don't spill the beans!"

What is an idiom?

100

Major reason(s) explorers left Europe to sail to the West.

What was looking for land/ wealth/ trade routes?

100

This East Coast location is the setting for the novel, "Fever".

What is Philidelphia, Pennsylvania.

100

In the equation 24/6 = 4, this is the dividend.

What is 24?

200

This magnetic instrument has been used for navigation for centuries.

What is a compass?

200
"The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
200

These people already lived in California before European explorers arrived.

Who were Native Americans?

200

There are 7 of these large land masses that cover the Earth.

What are continents?

200

This is the product of 15 x 4.

What is 60?

300

This is the name of the range of push and pull around a magnet.

What is the magnetic field?

300

"My brother is a night owl."

What is a metaphor?

300

This country sent Explorers who would establish presidios, missions, and pueblos.

What is Spain?

300

This imaginary line divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

What is the Equator?

300

This is the quotient of 55/5.

What is 11?

400

If a north pole of a magnet gets close to another north pole of a magnet, they will do this.

What is repel?

400

"The snow was like a soft blanket on the ground."

What is a simile?

400

This type of Spanish structure in California was run by Spanish priests.

What is a mission?

400

These North to South imaginary lines on the globe, also called Meridians, help to measure how far East or West a place is on the Earth.

What are Lines of Longitude?

400

This multiplication fact is related to 36/6 = 6

What is 6x6 =36?

500

This has a magnetic field because of the magnetic elements in its core layer.

What is the Earth?

500

"This backpack weighs a ton!"

What is hyperbole?

500

This Spanish explorer never actually came to California, (he remained on land that is today Mexico), but his success encouraged Spain to settle in California also.

Who was Juan Cortez?

500

This ocean borders California on its Western coast.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

500

A teacher has 7 boxes with 9 pencils in each box.  How many pencils are there in all?

What is 63?