Harrisburg South Middle School
2015 MINDCORE MARATHON
6th GRADE
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In art, what is value?
The lightness or darkness of a color.
2
Name the presentation software.
A. Excel, B. Word, C. PowerPoint, D. Access
PowerPoint
3
What main nutrient do we get from Dairy Foods?
Calcium
4
What type of figurative language is a comparison of
two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”?
Simile
5
Define Hellenism.
Period when the Greek language and
Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek
peoples of southwest Asia, as a result
of Alexander the Great’s conquests
6
What is cuarenta y cuatro + trece?
Cincuenta y siete
7
What is the unauthorized use or reproduction of
another's work?
Piracy
8
The use of words that imitate the sounds – what
type of figurative language is this?
Onomatopoeia
9
What is the central focus of Family and Consumer
Sciences Education?
Family
10
How do you create an intermediate color?
By mixing a primary and a secondary
color together.
11
How did exploration by Europeans after the
mid-1400s change the African slave trade?
New European colonies used enslaved
Africans for hard labor. As more
colonies were set up, more people
were enslaved.
12
Which of these is an operating system: Google,
Yahoo, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office?
Microsoft Windows
13
This can be defined as the norms of appropriate,
responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
Digital Citizenship
14
Name all of the days of the week in Spanish
Lunes, martes, miercoles, jueves,
viernes, sabado, domingo
15
What type of figurative language is defined as giving Personification
objects or abstract ideas human characteristics?
16
When shading with color, what should be added to
darken a color?
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The complimentary color
17
Why did Buddhism become popular in India?
Buddhism rejected the caste system
and asserted that even low-caste
people could achieve enlightenment
18
How do you say the month that Martin Luther King
Jr. day is in (in Spanish)?
Enero
19
On the periodic table, what represents the number
of protons in the nucleus of an atom of that
element?
Atomic Number
20
How did the creation of a standard system of
weights and measures benefit the Roman Empire?
It made it easier for people to price
goods, trade, and ship products.
21
What is a SMART goal?
Specific/Measurable/Attainable/
Realistic/Timely
22
How did the Black Death change Europe?
Killed nearly half of Europe’s
population, changed Europe’s
economy(trade slowed and wages
rose), feudalism was weakened
23
Which art style started in the 1960s and was created Pop Art
for the understanding of the everyday person?
24
What is the difference between weight and mass?
Weight is the measure of the
gravitational force on an object and
mass describes the amount of matter
in an object.
25
What is a cognate?
A word that sounds similar from
language to another
26
What type of family is considered “traditional”?
Nuclear Family
27
What is the difference between speed and velocity?
Speed is the measure of how far
something moves in a given amount
of time and velocity is the speed of an
object in a certain direction.
28
What do you call a push or a pull exerted on an
object in order to change the motion of the object
and what unit do we use to express it?
A force and the unit is the Newton.
29
What is a class structure?
Different people have different ranks
in society, depending on their wealth,
power, and the jobs they do.
30
What type of family consists of parents and children
from other relationships?
Blended Family
31
Why were Native Americans so susceptible to
diseases brought to the Americas by Spanish
Conquistadors?
The Native Americans had not been
previously exposed to these diseases
and did not have natural immunities.
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32
This is the knowledge, skills, and behaviors used in
a broad range of digital devices such as
smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs, all
of which are seen as network rather than computing
devices.
Digital Literacy
33
Define “setting.”
The time and place in which a story
occurs
34
Name one of the three founders of Apple Inc.
Options: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak,
Ronald Wayne
35
What type of figurative language is the repetition of
Alliteration
consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are
close together?
36
In ancient Rome, what were the Twelve Tables?
The first written code of laws, carved
in bronze and placed in the
marketplace, established that all free
citizens had the right to be treated
equally.
37
This is the exclusive legal right, given to an
originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform,
film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material,
and to authorize others to do the same.
Copyright
38
“As disastrous as the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina” is an example of what type of figurative
language?
Simile
39
What does Newton’s Second Law state?
Force = Mass x Acceleration
40
Which software would you use to make a
spreadsheet?
A. Excel, B. Word, C. Power Point, D.
Access
Excel
41
Who founded Microsoft?
Bill Gates and Paul Allen
42
What is a civilization?
A complex society with cities,
organized governments, art, religion,
class divisions, and writing systems.
43
What do you call a testable idea or explanation that
leads to scientific investigation?
A hypothesis
44
What does UGC stand for?
User-generated Content
45
What is a figure of speech that cannot be defined
literally?
Idiom
46
What geographic features determined the location of Rivers and valleys
the early civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China,
and India?
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47
What are the three parts of an atom, what is their
charge, and where are they located?
Protons (positive charge) and
Neutrons (no electrical charge) are in
the nucleus and electrons (negatively
charged particles) are found outside
the nucleus
48
What does Newton’s First Law state?
Objects will resist a change in motion
until an unbalance force acts on them.
49
What type of figurative language uses an extreme
exaggeration for emphasis?
Hyperbole
50
“Give her the boot” is an example of what type of
figurative language?
Idiom
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BONUS QUESTIONS
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1
What does Newton’s Third Law state?
2
What type of figurative language is a comparison of Metaphor
two unlike things in which one thing becomes
another?
3
The change of state from a gas to a liquid is called
what?
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Every action has an equal but opposite
reaction.
Condensation