Middle School Questions
1. There are 180 pages in the book Diana is reading. Diana has read 90 pages. What percent of the book has she read? 50%
2. When Columbus sailed from Spain on his epic journey what did he expect to find? India
3. What was the name of one of Columbus's ships? Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
4. What was the reason that the Pilgrims left England and sailed for America? Religious freedom
5. What was the Stamp Act? A tax placed on the 13 colonies of America by England on printed materials.
6. What was the Underground Railroad? A group of people who provided places for escaped slaves to hide on their way to the North.
7. In 1849 some people were swept up in the excitement of what is called The Gold Rush. In what state was gold found? California
8. Which the following is a famous American author? Shaquille O’Neil, Mark Twain, George Bush
9. Which of the following is a famous American author? Oprah Winfrey, John Smith, Edgar Allen Poe
10. Which of the following is a famous American author? Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Disney, Harry Potter
11. Which of the following was not an American President? Andrew Jackson, Jack Johnson, Andrew Johnson
12. How many colonies were in America before it became the United States? 13
13. How many states does the United States of America contain? 50
14. The sum of a triangle’s angels is how many degrees? 180
15. Name the scientific term for the _______ bone:
knee bone patella
shin bone tibia
funny bone humerus
jaw bone (lower) mandible
finger bones phalanges
wrist bones carpals
sholder blade scapula
collar bone clavicle
skull cranium
back bones vertebrae
thigh bone femur
heel bone calcaneus
calf bone fibula
16. Spell the word acceptable.
17. Spell the word accident.
18. Spell the word believe.
19. Spell the word beautiful.
20. Spell the word calendar.
21. Spell the word committed.
22. Spell the word conscience.
23. Spell the word column.
24. Spell the word embarrass.
25. Spell the word equipment.
26. Spell the word foreign.
27. Spell the word grateful.
28. Spell the word height.
29. Spell the word intelligence.
30. Spell the word judgment.
31. Spell the word license.
32. Spell the word misspell.
33. Spell the word neighbor.
34. Spell the word noticeable.
35. Spell the word occasionally.
36. Spell the word possession.
37. Spell the word restaurant.
38. Spell the word rhyme.
39. Spell the word rhythm.
40. Spell the word schedule.
41. Spell the word twelfth.
42. Spell the word until.
43. Spell the word vacuum.
44. Spell the word weird.
45. What is a hypothesis? An educated guess
46. What does the Richter Scale measure? The intensity of earthquakes.
47. Name the continent do you live on? North America
48. Name the continent France is on? Europe
49. Name the continent India is on? Asia
50. Name the continent China is on? Asia
51. Name the continent Brazil is on? South America
52. Name the continent Russia is on? Asia
53. Name the continent Mexico is on? North America
54. Name the continent England is on? Europe
55. Name the continent South Africa is on? Africa
56. Name the continent Nigeria is on? Africa
57. Name the continent Indonesia is on? Asia
58. Name the continent Columbia is on? South America
59. Name the continent Canada is on? North America
60. Name the continent Japan is on? Asia
61. Name the continent Spain is on? Europe
62. What is an asteroid? Small planetoids in orbit around the sun; smaller than a planet, but larger than a meteoroid.
63. What is an atom? The basic unit of matter which has a nucleus, protons, electrons, and neutrons.
64. What is a cell? The smallest unit of life, the smallest unit that makes up living things.
65. What is the circulatory system for? Control the flow of blood throughout the body.
66. What is a climate? The common weather conditions of an area.
67. What does it mean to conserve energy? To use less power.
68. What is the digestive system for? To process food and absorb nutrients in the body.
69. What is a galaxy? A large system of stars, dust, and gas that is bound by gravity.
70. What is the immune system for? Protects the body against disease and infection.
71. Define inertia. An object in motion will stay in motion unless it is stopped.
72. What is the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate animal? Vertebrates have back bones and invertebrates do not.
73. What is a meteor? The streak seen in the sky when a meteoroid passes through the atmosphere.
74. What is a molecule? The smallest physical unit, very small particle
75. What is the nervous system for? Sends signals from one part of the body to another.
76. Give an example of an organ. Heart, lung, liver, stomach, etc.
77. What is H2O? Water
78. Explain photosynthesis. The process that plants use to turn light into sugar/fuel.
79. What is the difference between predator and prey? A predator eats prey.
80. What is the reproductive system for? Reproducing young; having babies
81. What is the respiratory system for? Allows gas exchange in the body; breathing
82. Give a synonym for perspiration. Sweat
83. What is the skeletal system for? Provides shape and form for the body, support, and allows for movement.
84. Define erosion. The process of the earth being worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc.
85. Give a synonym for soil. Dirt
86. What is the difference between acute and obtuse angles? Acute angles are less than 90 degrees and obtuse angles are larger than 90 degrees.
87. What do parallel lines look like? =
88. What is a diameter? A line that passes through the center of a circle.
89. What is a circumference? The distance around a circle.
90. What is a radius? A line that goes from the center of the circle to the edge.
91. What does the word area refer to in math? The measurement of the surface of a shape.
92. Explain the difference between a numerator and denominator. The numerator is the top of a fraction and the denominator is the bottom of a fraction.
93. How many sides does a quadrilateral have? 4
94. What do intersecting lines do? Cross each other.
95. What do perpendicular lines look like? Lines that intersect at a 90 degree angle (right angle)
96. Give the numerical expression of pi. 3.14
97. What is a prime number? A number that can only be factored by itself and 1.
98. Give an example of a prime number. 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19
99. What does a right angle look like? (students can show you with hands straight up and straight side like an L; 90 degree angle)
100. What small number represents squared? 2
101. What small number represents cubed? 3
102. Which direction does a Y axis go? Up and down (verticle)
103. Which direction does an X axis go? Side to side (horizontal)
104. How many sides does a trapezoid have? 4
105. How many sides does an octagon have? 8
106. How many sides does a decagon have? 10
107. How many sides does a hexagon have? 6
108. How many sides does a pentagon have? 5
109. What is a perimeter? The distance around a polygon.
110. What is a common denominator? A denominator that is the same in two or more fractions.
111. What does it mean if two lines are congruent? They are the same size.
112. What is a quadrilateral? A four-sided polygon.
113. What is a vertex? The point in which two sides of an angle intersect.
114. What is a variable? A symbol used to represent a quantity that can change.
115. How many centimeters are in an inch? 2.54
116. How many inches are in a foot? 12
117. How many meters are in a kilometer? 1,000
118. How many feet are in a mile? 5280
119. How many millimeters are in an inch? 25.4
120. What are the eight parts of speech? Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection, conjunction, pronoun
121. Give an example of a proper noun. (Mr. Jones)
122. Give an example of a common noun. (desk)
123. Give an example of a verb. (study)
124. Give an example of an adjective. (smart, red, great, etc.)
125. What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb? An adjective describes a noun and an adverb describes verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.
126. Give an example of an adverb. (quickly, very, etc.)
127. Give an example of a preposition. (on, in, at, etc.)
128. Give an example of an interjection. (Ouch! Wow!, ect.)
129. Give an example of a conjunction. For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
130. What are conjunctions used for? Joining sentences and phrases together.
131. Give an example of a pronoun. (he, she, it, they, we, etc.)
132. What does it mean to analyze something? To study carefully.
133. What does it mean to justify what you are doing? To give reasons or explanations.
134. Give some examples of things that can be categorized? (students, books, shoes, food, etc.)
135. What does it mean if a person or thing is isolated? To be alone or separated from others.
136. What does it mean to distinguish between things? To identify differences.
137. What is an interpretation? One’s personal understanding of an idea or topic.
138. What is a plot? All the events that make up a story.
139. Explain all the parts of a plot. Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Events, Climax, Falling action, Denoument/Resolution
140. What is the difference between rising action and falling action? Rising action is before the climax and falling action is after the climax.
141. What is a climax? The most exciting part of the story where conflict begins to resolve.
142. What is a resolution? The end of the story, conflicts resolved.
143. What is a theme? The Huge Essential Meaning Explained through the story; deeper meaning of the story
144. What is a character? A person or animal in a piece of literature.
145. What are the five ways that an author can show indirect characterization? Through a character’s appearance, actions, thoughts/feelings, speech, other character’s opinions.
146. What is figurative language? Phrases or expressions that have a deeper meaning than the literal meaning.
147. Give an example of a simile. (Example: Strong like an ox. Hairy as a bear.)
148. Give an example of a metaphor. (Example: He is a strong ox. He is a hairy bear.)
149. Give an example of an idiom. (Example: It’s raining cats and dogs.)
150. Give an example of personification. (Example: The tree hung in a sad manner.)
151. Give an example of a hyperbole. (Example: I walked a thousand miles just to see you.)
152. Finish this analogy: Dog is to bark as cat is to _________.
153. Finish this analogy: Boy is to girl as man is to _________.
154. Finish this analogy: Student is to classroom as _________ is to __________.
155. Finish this analogy: Eat is to hungry as drink is to _________.
156. Finish this analogy: Read is to book as ________ is to __________.
157. Give an example of an onomatopoeia. (Example: meow)
158. What is the difference between a simple and a compound sentence? A simple sentence has one thought, and a compound sentence has two or more complete thoughts.)
159. What does a compound sentence need to have? A conjunction
160. What does FANBOYS stand for? For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
161. What two things does a complete sentence have to have? Subject and Verb
162. What are quotation marks for? To show when a character is talking.
163. What are the three types of punctuation that can go at the end of a sentence? Period, question mark, and exclamation point.
164. What punctuation do you use in a sentence when you want the reader to pause? Comma
165. What is a synonym? A word that has the same meaning.
166. Give an example of a pair of synonyms. (Example: Large/Huge)
167. What is an antonym? A word that has an opposite meaning
168. Give an example of a pair of antonyms. (Example: Large/Small)
169. What was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famous for? Civil Rights Movement, bus boycott, speeches, etc.
170. What is a root word? A piece of a word that has a Latin, Greek, or Anglo Saxon origin.
171. Give an example of a root word. (Example: ped, bio, cred, ect.)
172. What is an affix? A piece of a word that is added to the beginning or end.
173. What are the two kinds of affixes? Prefix and Suffix
174. What is the difference between a prefix and a suffix? Prefix goes at the beginning of a word and suffix goes at the end of a word.
175. Give an example of a prefix. (Example: pre-, de-, ex-, micro-)
176. Give an example of a suffix. (Example: -logy, -er, -y)
177. What do affixes do to root words? Change the spelling and meaning.
178. Sometimes when you add a suffix to a word you have to change the __________. Spelling
179. What kind of punctuation is used to show ownership of something and is followed by an S? Apostrophe
180. Who is the president of the United States? Barack Obama
181. Who is the vice president of the United States? Joe Biden
182. Name someone who ran against the president of the United States in the last election. John McCain / Hillary Clinton
183. What is rule 1? Follow directions quickly.
184. What is rule 2? Raise your hand for permission to speak.
185. What is rule 3? Raise your hand for permission to leave your seat.
186. What is rule 4? Make smart choices.
187. What is rule 5? Keep your dear teacher happy.
188. What does the subject of a sentence show? Who or what the sentence is about.
189. What does the verb of a sentence show? The action, what the subject is doing.
190. What is a direct object? The person or thing receiving the action in the sentence.
191. What questions do direct objects answer? Who? / What?
192. What questions do prepositional phrases or adverbs answer? When? Where? How? Why?
193. What is a conjunction? A word that combines two sentences or phrases.
194. What does an adjective do? Describes a noun.
195. Give an example of a sentence with a prepositional phrase. (Example: Go sit in your chair.)
196. Give an example of a sentence with an adjective. (Example: We are very smart.)
197. Give an example of a sentence with a conjunction. (Example: Please finish and put your book away.)
198. Give an example of a compound sentence. (Example: Sherry went home, and her brother went to soccer practice.)
199. What are some other words or phrases that mean the same as THEME? (Example: main idea, deeper meaning, lesson, etc.)
200. Name a common theme throughout literature. (Example: Love conquers all, Friendship is more important than popularity, What goes around comes around, etc.)
201. Use the word CATEGORY in a sentence.
202. Use the word JUSTIFY in a sentence.
203. Use the word ISOLATE in a sentence.
204. Use the word DISTINGUISH in a sentence.
205. Use the word ANALYZE in a sentence.
206. Use the word COMPARE in a sentence.
207. Use the word CONTRAST in a sentence.
208. Use the word INFER in a sentence.
209. What does it mean to reflect on something? To think about carefully.
210. What does it mean to elaborate on something? To add more detail.
211. Use the word ELABORATE in a sentence?
212. What does it mean to determine something? To decide.
213. Use the word DETERMINE in a sentence.
214. What does it mean to predict? To guess what is next.
215. Use the word PREDICT in a sentence.
216. Give an example of something specific you can predict.
217. What does it mean to emphasize something? To show importance.
218. Name something that is emphasized at school?
219. Use the word EMPHASIZE in a sentence.
220. Name and define a vocabulary word you used recently in Language Arts.
221. Name and define a vocabulary word you used recently in Social Studies.
222. Name and define a vocabulary word you used recently in Math.
223. Name and define a vocabulary word you used recently in Science.

Thanks for the list! I'm going to put it next to my desk. I teach 5th grade, and these are perfect review for this time of year.

Thank you!

This list is great! Last school year, my grade level team (fifth grade) put together a list of questions for mind soccer too! This worked well, so the teachers didn't have to come up with questions at the spur of the moment. Here is one of the lists:

Mind Soccer
1. Name and describe one phase of the water cycle.(Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, groundwater, runoff)
2. Decompose the number 4,583=4000 + 500 + 80 + 3
3. What is the name of the instrument used to measure wind direction? Wind vane
4. Round 786 to the nearest tens. 790
5. How many seconds are in a minute? 60
6. If I read a book last night, how would I spell that read? read
7. What resource could you use to find words that have similar meanings? Thesaurus.
8. In which war did America gain its independence from Britain? American Revolution
9. What is 8*8? 64
10. Which is farther 3 yards or 3 miles? 3 miles
11. What is an independent variable? what I "the scientist" change
12. Decompose the number 256,987. 200,000+50,000+6,000+900+80+7
13. What is the name of the instrument used to measure air pressure? barometer
14. Which digit is in the thousands place in 87,965? 7
15. How many minutes are in an hour? 60
16. Spell library.
17. The two words at the top of a page in a dictionary are called what type of words? Guide words
18. How many steps are there in the scientific method?
19. What is 7*6? 42
20. Do all sentences need to have a punctuation mark? yes
21. What is the capital of Missouri? Jefferson City
22. What is 7*8? 56
23. A person, place, thing are what part of speech? noun
24. Name one of the four oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic
25. Spell the word friend.
26. How many days are in a year? 365
27. What resource could you use to find words that have definitions? Dictionary
28. What is the name of a three sided figure? Triangle
29. Two straight lines running side by side at an equal distant apart are called what type of lines? Parallel
30. How many continents are there? 7


Thank you for sharing!

Laura Caisse
WBT Intern, 2011-2012

Laura ... why don't you post your team's Mind Soccer list here, just as Angela did.