6Th Grade Orals Bluegrass Middle School Academic Conference 15
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6th Grade Orals Bluegrass Middle School Academic Conference 15 rounds of 80 questions divided into halves, with alternates Copyright © 2014 Academic Hallmarks 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 1 1. References 6. Deduction In what type of reference could this be found? What is the conclusion of this syllogism? silent - All students are bright people. All bright still, hushed, quiet, quiescent, faint, muted, people study logic. Therefore ... noiseless, soundless, inaudible, soundproof, speechless, unspoken, deathlike thesaurus all students study logic 2. Fictional Thieves 7. Oceanography What young hero stole a harp with golden strings and What is the term for a periodic rise and fall of ocean a goose that lays golden eggs? levels resulting from the gravitational force exerted by the Sun and Moon? Jack tide 3. Marine Life 8. Elections Name the echinoderm that lives along the margins of Name the written instruments by which people cast oceans that looks like a round ball covered with long votes for candidates in an election. sharp spines similar to those on porcupines. sea urchin ballots 4. Meat Money 9. Fictional Homes A carnivore paid $1.75 for a 1 pound 12 ounce chunk What fictional character lived in a hole that was "not a of red meat. What was the cost of the meat per nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms pound? and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat"? $1.00 hobbit (Bilbo Baggins) 5. Concerts 10. Suffixes A concert given by an individual performer or by a What does the suffix mean in these words? series of individuals is called a what? pesticide herbicide insecticide recital killer (kill) 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 2 11. British Legends 16. Trees What name completes this verse relating to the legend What tropical tree has a huge seed with a kind of milk of Robin Hood? inside? "This infant was called John Little," quoth he, 'Which name shall be changed anon, The words we'll transpose, So wherever he goes, His name shall be called ... Little John coconut palm 12. Posy Poetry 17. Reptiles James Russell Lowell wrote this to what flower? What kind of snake is the sidewinder? Dear common flower, that grow'st by the way Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold! First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck and full of pride uphold - High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found. dandelion rattlesnake (pit viper) 13. Explorer-Soldiers 18. Word Use What is the collective name for Spanish soldiers who What word could be used to replace the blank in each captured land and people in the Americas? sentence? They had to ---- a hasty retreat. We ---- the woods for deer. The policeman walked his ----. The bird will ---- its wings. Why do you ---- around the bush. conquistadors beat 14. Agricultural Verse 19. Poetry These lines are from a poem about what kind of What type of poem typically begins with this kind of machine? first line? Snub nose, the guts of twenty mules are There was an old man from Nairobi ... in your cylinders and transmission. The rear axles hold the kick of twenty Missouri jackasses. tractor limerick 15. Sculpture 20. Regional Symbols What is the common name for an anthropomorphic Windmills are especially symbolic of what European sculpture made from accumulated hexagonal ice country? crystals? snowman Holland (or Netherlands) 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 3 21. Monumental Math 26. Poems The Great Pyramid at Giza is composed of 2.3 million What is the title of the poem by Rachel Field that blocks of limestone, each averaging 2.5 tons. In begins as follows? pounds, what is the weight of the entire pyramid? A road might lead to anywhere - To harbor towns and quays, Or to a witch's pointed house Hidden by bristly trees. It might lead past the tailor's door ... 11.5 billion Roads 22. Mountains 27. Dumb Rhymes Name the northernmost state in which part of the What three words come next in this chant? Rocky Mountains is located. One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and ... Alaska shot each other 23. Big Waters 28. Numbers The Great Lakes, along with what river, are historically What cardinal number corresponds to the number of and economically Canada's most important inland upper and lower case letters in the alphabet? waters? St. Lawrence River 52 24. Cellars 29. Phonemes The storm cellars of the American Midwest are a kind What is another word that consists of the same of underground bunker mainly used to protect people phonemes as "pat"? from what kind of storms? tornadoes tap, apt 25. Poetry Structure 30. Inventors Name the divisions of a poem consisting of a series of Who invented the phonograph and incandescent light lines in a regularly recurring pattern. bulb? stanzas Thomas Edison 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 4 31. Ravages of the West 36. Algebraic Simplification In Laura Wilder's book, "On the Banks of Plum Simplify 1/2 (-18). Creek," she describes a glittering cloud of what kind of insects that obscured the Sun? locusts (grasshoppers) -9 32. Precipitation 37. Books What form of precipitation consists of water droplets These are what kind of books? condensed from the air onto cool surfaces? -Who's Who in American Politics -Oxford Companion to the Theater -National Zip Code Directory -Chambers Biographical Dictionary dew references 33. Time 38. Political Terms Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands are only two Who serves a four year term concurrent with the miles apart. But if it is Tuesday on Little Diomede, it president of the United States? is Wednesday on Big Diomede. What line of longitude separates these islands? International Date Line vice president 34. Stages and Organisms 39. Statistics The stages in the development of an organism Isaac's first 3 fish weighed 3 pounds apiece. His next comprise what cycle? three fish each weighed 5 pounds. He also caught one weighing 2 pounds and one weighing 6 pounds. What is the average weight of all his fish? life 4 pounds 35. Faults 40. Native Americans The last catastrophic slip of the San Andreas Fault What dwellings are suggested in this excerpt? occurred in 1857, producing an earthquake estimated The Hopi, Zuni, and Anasazi Indians of the on the Richter scale at 8.3. Geologists have found that southwest lived in proto-condominiums made such enormous slippages occur, on average, every 140 of adobe and stone. years. Based on this, the next major slip should have occurred in what year? 1997 pueblos 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Silly Rules What word is missing repeatedly in this rule from "Through the Looking Glass"? ---- to-morrow and ---- yesterday, but never ---- to-day jam Alt. 2. The Netherlands People of the Netherlands have built miles of earthen walls along their coastline to keep the stormy North Sea from flooding their land. Name these walls. dikes Alt. 3. Life What is this about? They can be almost as large as a baseball or smaller than the thickness of a hair. They can be shaped like balls, boxes, rods, spirals, tubes, snowflakes, or starfish. A single one may make up an entire organism or millions of them may form a tissue of a larger organism. cells Alt. 4. Fictional Teachers Identify the teacher who takes her students on exciting trips in the series, "The Magic School Bus." Ms. Frizzle Alt. 5. Old Age Problems The world's oldest woman, Jeanne Calment, died in 1997 at age 122. In what year was she born? 1875 6th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 1 1. Special Materials 6. Electricity What is the function of these materials? What is the general name for that with which you can -rubber around metal wires you surround an electric charge to prevent it from -spun fiberglass in walls escaping? -goose down in sleeping bags insulation insulator (insulation) 2. Canyons 7. Long-Living Quotes A vertical canyon wall has an angle to the canyon The words, "Give me liberty or give me death," were floor of how many degrees? uttered just prior to what war? 90 American Revolution 3. Sentence Analysis 8. Storms What is the simple subject in this line? The centers of what kind of storms are called eyes? Through the valley and over the streams went the fourteen large-nosed gremlins. gremlins hurricanes 4. Painting Problems 9. Tortoise Track Time Pete can paint a Porsche in 5 days. What part will Pete A circular racecourse is marked into sixths. If a paint in 3 days? determined tortoise took 4 minutes to get from the first mark to the third mark, how long would it need to get around the entire track? 3/5 (or .6) 12 minutes 5. Literature and Enemies 10. Vowels What kind of creature is the enemy in the story that What is the first noun in the Pledge of Allegiance that begins as follows? includes a long vowel sound? This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. cobra allegiance 6th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 2 11. Dragons 16. Shoreline Features Name the dragon in this ditty. What part of an ocean that extends into the land is Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink smaller than a gulf but larger than a cove? And the little gray mouse, she called her Blink And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard But the dragon was a coward and she called him ..