Mountain Gallery

North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores

Grade 5 – Math

Mountain Gallery:

1. Kristen the aquarist was cleaning the Mountain Minnow exhibit and two surprised fish took off swimming. Fish 1 swam 3/5 of a foot and Fish 2 swam 1/5 of a foot. How much farther did Fish 1 swim than Fish 2? ______

Piedmont Gallery:

1. Our river otters love to eat fish, eggs, and other treats. This morning for breakfast they ate 8/10 fish and 1/10 eggs. How much breakfast did they not eat? ______

Coastal Plains Gallery:

1. Fred the herpetologist is trying to figure out how much space he has in the Bear Creek Farm exhibit to determine how many snakes can live there comfortably.

The Bear Creek Farm

exhibit is:

1. Find the surface area of the Bear Creek Farm exhibit:______

1. Find the volume of the Bear Creek Farm exhibit: ______

Tidal Waters Gallery:

1. Michele the aquarist is adding 24 young fish from a holding exhibit, in the back, to the Bogue Sound Salt Marsh Exhibit. Her net can scoop 3 fish at a time safely from one exhibit to another. How many times will she have to use her net in order to get all 24 fish into the exhibit? ______

Ocean Gallery:

1. Aquarist Rachel records all the information about her sea jelly or jellyfish exhibit in a logbook, but someone got water all over the pages and now she cannot read some of her numbers. Help her figure out what the logbook notes say:

1. The temperature on Thursday was 75.6 degrees but the temperature on Friday is smudged. Sheremembers that the temperature was 1.4 degrees lower on Friday than it was on Thursday. What was the temperature on Friday? ______

Changing Exhibits Gallery:

1. The aquarium is thinking of adding a penguin exhibit, but they are having trouble deciding which way to sit the exhibit. Below is a picture of the different ways they have moved it.

1. What combination of transformations is shown above?

A)Rotation, translation

B)Reflection, rotation

C)Reflection, translation

Gift Shop:

1. You want to get your little sister a present from the aquarium. How much more does anotter stuffed animal cost than a jellyfish stuffed animal? ______

1. How much more does an otter stuffed animal cost than a sea turtle magnet?______

1. You decide you should get your little sister and your mom a present but you only brought eleven dollars. What can you get your mom and sister?______

1. Hurry! You have discovered you get a 10% discount. What is 10% of $10.00? ______

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