NAME _________________________ ***PLEASE BRING ON TESTING DAY*** ROOM # _____________ FIFTH GRADE KNOWLEDGE-A-THON 1. What do we call the supreme law of our land? The Constitution 2. What do we call the part of the Constitution that guarantees The Bill of Rights Americans their rights? 3. Name ONE of the three branches of the U.S. Government? Legislative, Executive, Judicial 4. Who was the Commander-in-Chief of the colonial army? George Washington 5. What famous black educator and agricultural scientist discovered George Washington Carver more than 300 uses for peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes? 6. In 1981, who was the first woman appointed to serve as a justice on Sandra Day O’Connor the United States Supreme Court? 7. In 1984, who was the first woman to run for Vice President of the Geraldine Ferrarro United States? 8. Who wrote the poem (or words) to “The Star Spangled Banner” and Frances Scott Key during during what war? the War of 1812 9. What city is the capital of the Unites States? Washington, D.C. 10. What is the name of the first permanent English colony in North Jamestown America? 11. Which 1803 event opened a vast area west of the Mississippi River to Louisiana Purchase American settlers? 12. What do we call the period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War? Reconstruction 13. What imaginary line divides the U.S. into the Northern and Southern Mason-Dixon Line States? 14. Name ONE of the 3 countries on the continent of North America? The United States, Canada and Mexico 15. Name ONE of the Great Lakes that wash Wisconsin’s shores? Lake Michigan and Lake Superior 16. What are the common names for zero degrees longitude & zero Prime Meridian and the degrees latitude? Equator 17. What do you call a number that has a whole number & a fraction e.g. Mixed number 2 2/3? Houdini Elementary KAT 2016 Page 1 of 5 NAME _________________________ ***PLEASE BRING ON TESTING DAY*** ROOM # _____________ FIFTH GRADE KNOWLEDGE-A-THON 18. What do you call the distance around a figure? Perimeter 19. What do you call the distance around a circle? Circumference 20. To mentally multiply a decimal by 100, what do you do? Move the decimal two places to the right 21. What are two figures that have the same size and shape called? Congruent 22. What is the formula for finding the area of a rectangle? Area equals length time width 23. What type of triangle has three equal sides? Equilateral 24. What is the line segment from the center of a circle to a point on the Radius circle called? 25. What part of speech gives the action in the sentence? Verb 26. What is a word that describes a noun or pronoun? Adjective 27. What do you do to add an –ing to a word that ends in y? Add the –ing without changing the y 28. When we make the thoughts and ideas in our writing better we are Revising ______. 29. When we improve spelling and grammar in our writing we are Editing _________. 30. What kind of language do we use to make our writing more Figurative descriptive? 31. A new idea, person talking or setting signals us to start a new ______. Paragraph 32. What do you call the works cited at the end of a research paper? Bibliography 33. What clef is this? Treble or G clef 34. What is the highest singing voice? Soprano 35. What does D.C. al Fine mean in music? Go back to the beginning and stop at ” Fine” 36. What does the word “crescendo” mean? To get louder gradually 37. In Art, what is value? The lightness or darkness of a color. 38. What is the horizon line? Where the earth and sky appear to come together. Houdini Elementary KAT 2016 Page 2 of 5 NAME _________________________ ***PLEASE BRING ON TESTING DAY*** ROOM # _____________ FIFTH GRADE KNOWLEDGE-A-THON 39. When backing soda is mixed with an acid, a ______ _____ occurs. Chemical reaction 40. Is the process of digestion a physical or chemical change? Chemical 41. What is the process of breaking down food called? Metabolism 42. What is a chemical found in food that helps keep an organism alive Nutrient and active called? 43. What are a group of nutrients that provide energy such as sugars and Carbohydrates starches called? 44. Eating simple carbohydrates cause what to rise? Blood sugar levels 45. What is the disease in which the body cannot process sugar Diabetes efficiently? 46. What is the sugar found naturally in fruits called? Fructose 47. What is the sugar found in sugar beets and sugar cane called? Sucrose 48. What is a group of nutrients that provide energy and building blocks Fats for development of some body systems called? 49. Fats are composed of smaller units called __________. Fatty acids 50. What will develop if you raise your heart rate through exercise? Endurance 51. What do you call your heart rate before you exercise? Your resting heart rate 52. When exercising, what is the heart rate you want to work towards? Your target heart rate 53. What is the heart rate which you never want to exceed called? Maximum heart rate 54. Stretching is done to improve what? Flexibility 55. How many days per week do doctors recommend exercising? Three or more 56. Most of your body is made up of what type of fluid? Water 57. What habits help prevent tooth decay? Brushing and flossing 58. In the 1980s, researchers at GE built the first whole body imaging or Able to find problems inside Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine. What are the benefits the body such as cancer of using a MRI machine? tumors without cutting into a person. 59. A lack of potassium can cause you to do what during physical Cramp up activity? 60. Eating what kind of fruit can prevent you from cramping during Bananas physical activity? Houdini Elementary KAT 2016 Page 3 of 5 NAME _________________________ ***PLEASE BRING ON TESTING DAY*** ROOM # _____________ FIFTH GRADE KNOWLEDGE-A-THON 61. What is the new nutrition guide that shows a place setting divided My Plate into 5 groups? 62. What do you call anything that you can change in an experiment that Variable might affect the outcome? 63. What is a mass swinging back and forth on a string called? Pendulum 64. A _________ is any motion or activity that repeats itself. Cycle 65. Name ONE of the variables that might affect the number of cycles the Mass, length, OR starting pendulum makes? position 66. What is an investigation designed to find out how variables affect Experiment outcomes? 67. What is the basic procedure used in controlled experiment, before Standard changing any of the variables? 68. What shows the outcome of a series of experiments when a variable is Two-coordinate graph changed by steps? 69. What is an estimate based on information? Prediction 70. What is the greatest amount of fluid a container can hold called? Capacity 71. What is a lever arm that is loaded with energy called? Catapult 72. What is an embankment along a stream that protects land from Levee flooding? 73. A construction or a wall across a river that holds back the water Dam flowing through the river is called a __________. 74. What is it called with an area around a river is covered by water Floodplain flowing over the riverbank during a flood? 75. What is a two-dimensional representation of three-dimensional Topographic maps surfaces as seen from directly overhead called? Houdini Elementary KAT 2016 Page 4 of 5 NAME _________________________ ***PLEASE BRING ON TESTING DAY*** ROOM # _____________ FIFTH GRADE KNOWLEDGE-A-THON BONUS QUESTIONS 1. What is a book of maps is called? Atlas 2. What level should your voice be in the hallway? Level 0 3. What are the 3 rules at Houdini? Be safe Be respectful Be responsible 4. What side of the school hallway do you walk on? Right 5. Name the 5 body basics you do when someone says 1. Sit up tall 2. Look at speaker “Give me 5” 3. Mouth closed 4. Listening ears 5. Hands and feet quiet Houdini Elementary KAT 2016 Page 5 of 5 .