End of Year Review Jeopardy
A cross-subject end of year review for grades 5 to 8: math, science, geography, US history, language arts and the science of summer. Free to copy, phone buzzers.
6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone
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This page is public, so anyone can read the answers — copy the board and swap a few clues before game day.
Math
- $200
A right angle measures this many degrees.
What is 90?
- $400
The area of a rectangle 6 units wide and 8 units long.
What is 48 square units?
- $600
Written as a decimal, the fraction 3/8 equals this.
What is 0.375?
- $800
If 3x + 5 = 20, x equals this.
What is 5?
- $1,000
Using 22/7 for pi, a circle with a radius of 7 units has this circumference.
What is 44 units?
Science
- $200
Plants take in this gas from the air to make their food.
What is carbon dioxide?
- $400
This process lets plants turn sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
- $600
Often called the powerhouse of the cell, it releases energy from food.
What is the mitochondrion?
- $800
Water vapor turning back into liquid, as on a cold glass, is called this.
What is condensation?
- $1,000
Newton's third law says every action has an equal and opposite one of these.
What is a reaction?
Geography
- $200
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
- $400
This river flows north through Egypt to the Mediterranean.
What is the Nile?
- $600
With 54 countries, this continent has the most.
What is Africa?
- $800
Lines of latitude measure distance north or south of this.
What is the Equator?
- $1,000
This is the smallest country in the world by area.
What is Vatican City?
US History
- $200
The Declaration of Independence was adopted in this year.
What is 1776?
- $400
Alongside the legislative and executive, this is the third branch of government.
What is the judicial branch?
- $600
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
- $800
Buying this territory from France in 1803 roughly doubled the size of the country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
- $1,000
This Shoshone woman guided and interpreted for Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
Language Arts
- $200
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
- $400
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
- $600
Words that sound the same but mean different things, like their and there.
What are homophones?
- $800
The turning point of a story, where the tension peaks.
What is the climax?
- $1,000
Repeating the same starting sound, as in Peter Piper picked a peck.
What is alliteration?
The Science of Summer
- $200
In the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice has the most hours of this.
What is daylight?
- $400
Sunscreen protects skin from this kind of radiation from the sun.
What is ultraviolet?
- $600
It is summer in the Northern Hemisphere when it is tilted toward this.
What is the sun?
- $800
Fireflies make light through a chemical reaction called this.
What is bioluminescence?
- $1,000
Crickets chirp faster when this goes up.
What is the temperature?
Final Jeopardy — The Calendar
The first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice, usually falls on June 20 or this date.
What is June 21?
How to run this board
The last weeks of school need something that reviews the year without feeling like another test, and this board covers the core subjects in one game. Categories cover math, life and physical science, geography, US history, language arts, and a lighter Science of Summer column to finish on.
It is pitched at grades 5 to 8, so the $200 row should be warm-up for everyone and the $1000 row asks for something they learned this year. Copy it and swap a column for your own unit if your year went somewhere different. Teams can buzz from their phones, or run it as a whole-class game with one buzzer per table.
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