Knowledge Quest

How do you write 25% as a decimal?

Amphibians begin life with gills and later develop lungs.

During keyboarding, "home row" is "a s d f j k l;"

Spell the name of the river that runs from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

Which word is listed first in the dictionary: fire, firearm, or first?

Quickly, softly, loudly are examples of adjectives.

A simile is a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.

What is a synonym for the word grumbled?

A meter stick is longer than a yard stick.

Name the large mountain range that is found in the Western part of the United States.

Name the state whose capital is Tallahassee.

The atomic symbol for Nitrogen is N.

The top number of a fraction is called a denominator.

It is called a plot when characters communicate in a story.

What instrument measures air pressure?

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and run off make up the water cycle.

The Native American group found in the Midwest was the Plains group.

Which word is an example of an irregular plural?

The groups of vertebrates are fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds.

Examples of linking verbs are "is, are, was, were, and be".

When you inhale, you breathe in oxygen.

Which weighs more, a pound of iron or a pound of feathers?

Basketball comes before baseball in the dictionary.

How many levels make up the water classification system?

The 3 different punctuation marks that can end a sentence are . ? and !

There are 32 ounces in 2 pounds.

Nimbus clouds are nicknamed "horse tail".

A noun is the part of speech that names a person, place, thing, quality, or idea.

The city of Olympia is the capital of Idaho.

Count the number of syllables in the word condominium.

Mammals are the only group of animals that make milk to feed their young.

D.O.C. is the abbreviation for District of Columbia.

Refusing to give up when presented with a challenge is an example of _____.

What is the name of the land bridge formed between Asia and North America?

What were the pilgrims looking for?

An adverb is the part of speech that names an action.

If you fly from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, what ocean do you cross?

Name the state whose capital is Lincoln.

A pound is more than a kilogram.

The city of Providence is the capital of which state?

3 hours is longer than 175 minutes.

What month always has the fewest days?

Franklin Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star Spangled Banner".

The atomic symbol for Oxygen is Ox.

The atomic symbol for Carbon is Ca.

Baton Rouge is the capital of which state?

Which location is west of Marshfield, Wisconsin: Eagle, Colorado or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

4 nickels and 5 pennies make $.25.

What is the atomic symbol for Hydrogen?

Which point of view uses pronouns such as "I" and "me"?

What is the contraction for the word "cannot"?

100 meters make one kilometer.

What are the two states in the United States that do not share a border with any other states?

What is the answer to a division problem called?

What is our national bird?

In which city can you visit the Smithsonian?

An infinitive is made up of the word "to" followed by a _____.

Name the mountain range that's found in the eastern part of the United States.

The way a story develops and moves from one key event to the next is called the plot.

What is the capital of New York?

Which is not a vertebrate?

A noun is described by an adjective.

Put in order from north to south: Louisiana, Maine, and Tennessee.

What reference book contains a complete listing of synonyms and antonyms?

If you are "tuned out", you are not paying attention.

Expository text contain facts about real people, things, or events.

How many centimeters are in 1 meter?

Which is not an invertebrate?

What is the highest point of a wave called?

The metric system is the most common measurement system used in the world.

The 3 countries of North America are Mexico, United States, and Alaska.

Which means "see ahead of time"?

The Latin word for rainstorm is nimbus.

The layer of the atmosphere that we live in is the troposphere.

The four hemispheres of the earth are northern, southeastern, eastern, western.