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What mathematical expression is equivalent to the following number sentence: Subtract 15 from 45, and then divide by 3.

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(45-15)÷3

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How many times greater is the value of the digit 5 in 583,607 than the value of the digit 5 in 362,501?

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1,000 times

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What type of housing would you see in the Eastern Woodlands?

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long houses

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Which body system includes the brain and spinal cord?

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The nervous system

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Oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide may be grouped together because at room temperature they are all-

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Gas

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Which device is used to determine the volume of a liquid?

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graduated cylinder

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What is the name of the “lost colony”?

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Roanoke

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What are the three elements of dance?

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space, time, force

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What do you call a crop that is grown in order to be sold?

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Cash Crop

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Which war was fought between the north and the south regions of the United States?

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Civil War

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Identify the prepositions in the following sentence: Joe lay on the bed, rolled over and fell on the floor.

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on, over, on

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What do tobacco products contain that cause people to become addicted to it?

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Nicotine

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Write an equation and give the correct value of the following sum: 3/8 + 14/12

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9/24 +28/24 =37/24 or 1 and 13/24

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Which branch of government holds the main responsibility for determining if a law has been broken?

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Judicial

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Earth makes a complete revolution around the Sun about once every

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Year

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What grain is grown in Asia?

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Rice

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Why did the Puritans, Pilgrims and Quakers leave their homes in Europe and come to the New World??

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Religious Freedom

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What is the comparative form of the adjective bad?

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Worse

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In physical fitness, what does FITT stand for?

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Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type

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Which pair of words is the preposition and object of the preposition in the following sentence: The children tumbled off the bed.

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off, bed

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What five-stringed instrument, with one shorter than the other four, is most commonly used in bluegrass and country music

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Banjo

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Carson needs to purchase 5.6 meters of tape for a project. If each roll of tape contains 80 cm and costs $5, what is the total cost of the tape that Carson must buy?

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$35.00

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What word should be omitted in this example? It was the most longest race she had ever attempted since the Barcelona Olympics.

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Most

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Any region of darkness where light is blocked is called a

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Shadow

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Jenny collected 360 worms to sell in her fishing store. If she packages them 40 to a bag, how many bags will she need?
9 bags
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Which body of the solar system has a nearside that is visible from Earth and a farside that isn't?
Moon
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Add the product of 5 and 3 to the product of 2 and 4.
23
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What is the past tense of "go"?
went
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What is the function of these materials? - rubber around metal wires -sun fiberglass in walls
insulation
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Violins have how many strings?
4
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what homograph means either a summit or a spinning toy?
top
32
How many plane surfaces are on a cube?
6
33
Water's solid phase is
Ice
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There are three fundamental types of matter. Which has a definite size and shape?
Solid
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In what state is the Grand Canyon?
Arizona
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A 12 year old girl is 3 times older than her sister. How old is the sister?
4
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Orange juice is high in what vitamin?
Vitamin C
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What gas is given off during the respiration of whales and porpoises?
Carbon Dioxide
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This is what kind of animal? When a hive becomes overcrowded, the workers develop a new queen by provided a female larva with a diet of royal jelly
bees
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For the first year of life, baby bears mainly consume what?
milk
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What is the Earth's period of rotation?
1 day - 24 hours
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What insect spreads malaria?
Mosquito
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What kind of vehicles are required by federal law to carry a wheeled and folding litter, portable artificial ventilation devices, airways for mouth to mouth ventilation, oxygen, bandages, dressing, and splints?
Ambulances
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How are the plurals formed on words that end in y if the proceeding letter is a vowel?
Drop the y and add ies
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Name the special string used to clean between teeth
Floss
46
Dog is to puppy as deer is to
fawn
47
The US flag has seven red stripes and how many white stripes?
6
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The stripes on a flag represent what?
The original 13 colonies
49
In feet, what is the perimeter of an octagon with 12 in sides?
8 feet
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Instead of dew, what forms on the grass if the air temperature is below freezing?
Frost
51
How many feet are in 11 yards?
33 feet
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The world's oldest woman, Jeanne Calment, died in 1997 at 122. In what year was she born?
1875
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What type of words are these? inside, barnyard, downtown, dugout, tightrope
compound words
54
How many i's and s's are in mississippi?
8
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Legislative powers enable a government to make what?
laws
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What is the old evidence that geologist have that dinosaurs ever existed?
fossils
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What organ is enclosed by eight cranial bones?
brain
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What living bird, abundant in the Falkland Islands, has wings modified into swimming paddles?
penguins
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A curved, transparent glass body that bends light rays is a
lens
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Identify either of the two months during which thunderstorms are most common in the northern hemisphere
July, august
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The flattest parts of a river system are usually near the
mouth
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An enclosed space from which almost all matter has been removed is a
vacuum
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Name the molecule responsible for giving plants their green color
Chlorophyll
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Name the only type bodies in the solar system that expert a significant gravitational force on the earth??
Sun, moon
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What noun beginning with a "c" indicates the union of an inflammable substance with oxygen?
Combustion
66
The three main types of bees include queens, workers, and
drones
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The French surgeon Moral is credited with the development of what device to restrict blood flow to a limb and to control bleeding?
Tourniquet
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Name either national park in California named after massive trees?
Redwood, Sequoia
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What punctuation mark should be used at the end of a declarative sentence?
period
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What term means to begin writing a little way from the margin at the beginning of paragraphs?
Indent
71
How many more edges than corners does a cube have?
4
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How many syllables are in reticent?
3
73
The practice sessions that take place before a play is presented to an audience are called
rehearsals
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What is the seventh number in the sequence? 23,20,17,14
5
75
Subtract 8 hours 40 minutes from 11 hours 20 minutes
2 hours 40 minutes
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Name the phenomenon of light bouncing off a surface?
Reflection
77
What three oceans are contiguous to North America?
Pacific, Atlantic, arctic
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What is the title of the primary officer of a court of law?
Judge
79
World's largest warm-blooded animal is the blue?
Whale
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In a dramatic work, the bad guy who opposes the hero is the
villain

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