5th Grade Trivia Questions & Learning Games
Grade 5 · ages 10–11. Read a fun fact, answer a question and find out why, in six worlds from maths to history. Five questions a round, with stars to collect.
🔢 Numbers: Grade 5 fun facts
- 💯 Percent means 'out of 100', so 50% is half.
- 🔸 Decimals are another way to write fractions: 0.5 = 1/2.
- 🔢 A prime number has exactly two factors: 1 and itself.
- 🧊 Volume is the space inside a 3D shape: length × width × height.
- 🧮 Order of operations: multiply before you add.
🔬 Science: Grade 5 fun facts
- 🫁 Your lungs take in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.
- ⚛️ Everything is made of tiny particles called atoms.
- 🌍 Earth spins once every 24 hours, giving us day and night.
- ☀️ Earth takes about 365 days to go around the Sun.
- 🧂 Some mixtures can be separated. Salt water can be separated by evaporating the water.
🌍 Our World: Grade 5 fun facts
- 🍁 Ottawa is the capital of Canada.
- ⛰️ The Andes is the longest mountain range on land.
- 🌊 The Mediterranean Sea lies between Europe and Africa.
- 🧊 Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent.
- 🕰️ Earth turns, so it's daytime in some places while it's night in others. That's why we have time zones.
📚 Words: Grade 5 fun facts
- 📖 A synonym is a word with the same or a similar meaning.
- 🎭 Personification gives human qualities to things: 'The wind whispered.'
- ⚖️ A fact can be proven. An opinion is what someone thinks or feels.
- 🔗 Conjunctions join ideas together: and, but, because, so.
- 📚 A biography is the true story of someone's life, written by someone else.
🦁 Animals & Nature: Grade 5 fun facts
- 🏞️ An ecosystem is all the living things in a place and how they interact.
- 🪸 Coral reefs are built by tiny animals called coral polyps.
- 🍄 Decomposers like fungi and worms break down dead things and return nutrients to the soil.
- 🐘 The African elephant is the largest land animal.
- 🐳 The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.
🏰 Stories from History: Grade 5 fun facts
- 🌐 In 1519–1522, Ferdinand Magellan's expedition was the first to sail all the way around the world.
- 🏔️ The Inca built Machu Picchu high in the Andes mountains.
- 📜 The Magna Carta (1215) limited the power of the English king.
- 🦠 In the 1300s, a disease called the Black Death spread across Europe and Asia.
- 🏭 The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 1700s, bringing factories and machines.