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96 Cards in this Set
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What century are we living in today? |
21st century |
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What is the name of one kind of Japanese syllable poem often written about nature? |
Haiku |
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What is Charlotte in the book Charlotte's Web? |
a spider |
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Who is the author of Charlotte's Web? |
E.B. White |
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What type of story is Charlotte's Web, and why? |
Fantasy Fiction, because Charlotte can talk and write her words in a web. |
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What do you call a book written about the life of a real person? |
A biography. |
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Name 3 kinds of references you could use to find information. |
Internet, encyclopedia, dictionary, telephone book, atlas |
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What do we call words that are opposite in meaning, such as stop and go? |
Antonyms |
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What do we call words that have the same meaning, like stop and quit? |
Synonyms |
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In what year were you born? |
2008 |
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Name the five (5) oceans of the world. |
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Southern. |
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In which country do koalas live? |
Australia |
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Name two other unusual animals that live in Australia |
Kangaroo, platypus, echidna, cassowary, kookaburra, tasmanian devil |
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What would you find at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C.? |
The White House |
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What is the capital of Pennsylvania? |
Harrisburg |
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Does the moon orbit the earth in one week, two weeks, or 29 days? |
29 days |
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What is the name of the river that flows past Harrisburg? |
Susquehanna |
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What do you call the yellow part of an egg and why is it in the egg? |
A yolk. It provides food for the developing embryo before it hatches. |
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What is the equator? |
An imaginary line dividing the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres. |
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How do you find the area of a rectangle? |
Length x width |
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Name 3 types of communities |
Urban, suburban, rural |
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Which National Park is closest to our school? |
Gettysburg National Military Park |
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What is the product of 5 and 5? |
25 |
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What is the sum of 5 and 5? |
10 |
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What is the difference of 5 and 5? |
0 |
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What do you call a boat that can travel underwater? |
a submarine |
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What do we call a body of land completely surrounded by water? |
an island |
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What is the longest river in the United States? |
The Missouri River |
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Name the longest river in the world. |
The Nile |
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How many dimes make $3.00? |
30 |
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What is the fastest land animal? |
Cheetah |
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What does "conserve" mean in this sentence... "We should conserve the forest." |
It means use wisely. |
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Name one common substance that can be a solid, a liquid, or a gas. |
Water |
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Name one of two poisonous snakes found in Pennsylvania. |
Rattlesnake Copperhead |
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What do you call a person who studies plants? |
A botanist |
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Penguins live on what continent? |
Antarctica |
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Name the six (6) states that touch Pennsylvania |
Maryland Delaware New York New Jersey Ohio West Virginia |
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What umber is a one followed by five (5) zeros? |
one hundred thousand |
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Round $53.70 to the nearest ten dollars. |
$50.00 |
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In which direction does the sun set? |
The West |
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Who was President during the Civil War? |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Who was the first African American baseball player in the major leagues? |
Jackie Robinson |
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In which city and state is the Golden Gate Bridge? |
San Francisco, California |
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Name three (3) types of nouns |
Common nouns Proper nouns Pronouns |
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In which city is the Libery Bell located? |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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What is personification? |
When something that is NOT a person take on qualities of a person. |
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Name 3 fractions that are equivalent to 1/2. |
2/4 3/6 4/8 5/10 |
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What is a product in a math problem? |
The answer to a multiplication problem. |
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What national award has James Gettys been awarded? |
A National Blue Ribbon Award |
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Who founded Gettysburg? |
James Gettys |
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Whose famous speech had the words "I have a dream." ? |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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What is the smallest state in the United States? |
Rhode Island |
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What country has the largest population? |
China |
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Which European country is shaped like a boot? |
Italy |
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Name three other countries on North America besides ours. |
Canada Mexico Guatemala Costa Rica Panama Belize El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua |
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What famous composer became deaf? |
Beethoven |
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Is Boston a city or a state? |
A city |
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Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb "to see." "Yesterday I ---- my friend." |
saw |
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How many centimeters in a meter? |
100 |
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Where on the body is the thinnest? |
the eyelid |
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How many ounces in a pound? |
16 |
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How many cups in a pint? |
2 |
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How many pints in a quart? |
2 |
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How many minutes are in three quarters of an hour? |
45 minutes |
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What are the three types of clouds? |
Cumulus Cirrus Stratus |
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How many weeks are in a year? |
Fifty-two (52) |
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How many years are in a decade? |
10 |
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How many years are in a century? |
100 |
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How many years are in a score? |
20 |
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What does four score and seven years mean from the Gettysburg Address? |
87 years |
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What happens when sunbeams shine through drops of rain or mist? |
A rainbow appears. |
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Who was the only civilian killed in the Battle of Gettysburg? |
Jenny Wade |
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What is the metric term used to measure temperature? |
Celsius |
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What is the metric term used to measure liquid capacity? |
Liter |
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Who was the first American astronaut to orbit the earth in a spacecraft? |
John Glenn |
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What do we call patterns made by stars in the sky? |
Constellations |
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What is evaporation? |
Water (a liquid) turns to water vapor (a gas) |
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What causes evaporation? |
Heat |
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Name the four types of precipitation. |
Rain Sleet Snow Hail |
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Which U.S. president lived at Mount Vernon? |
George Washington |
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What is water when it is a solid? |
Ice |
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Who was the 2nd president of the United States? |
John Adams |
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In geometry, what does congruent mean? |
Having exactly the same size and shape |
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How do you find the perimeter of a shape? |
Add the length of each side. |
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Round to the nearest thousand the number of miles around the earth. |
25,000 miles |
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Name the months of the year in order. |
January February March April May June July August September October November December |
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Which of our presidents served the longest time? |
Franklin Roosevelt |
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What is the official nickname of Pennsylvania? |
The keystone state. |
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What freshwater lake has the largest surface area in the world? |
Lake Superior |
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What kind of angle is in the printed capital L? |
a right angle |
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Name the multiples of 4 between 17 and 30. |
20,24,28 |
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What is a line of symmetry? |
The line that divides a figure into two equal parts, each part being the mirror image of the other part. |
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Who won the American Civil War? |
The North or the Union |
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What is 4,625 in expanded form? |
4000, 600, 20, 5 |
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What is normal human body temperature on a Farenheit thermometer? |
98.6 degrees |
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Name the seven continents of the world |
North America South America Europe Asia Australia Africa Antarctica |
