Name: ___________________________

Fact and Opinion

Directions: Read each statement and then circle whether it is a fact or opinion. Explain your answer.
1. The fastest land-dwelling creature is the Cheetah.

Fact or Opinion Explain: this statement does not include bias, this is an informative statement.

2. Michael Jordan has a career average of 30.4 points per game.

Fact or Opinion Explain: Fact, this statement is simply stating a collective average

3. George Washington was the first President of the United States under the Constitution.

Fact or Opinion Explain: this can be backed up by research for evidence.

4. The ugliest sea creature is the manatee.

Fact or Opinion Explain: this has no evidence to back this up.

5. Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.

Fact or Opinion Explain: this statement is just an opinion on who is the greatest basketball player of all time,
this can easily be argued

6. There seems to be too much standardized testing in public schools.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because I have heard many schools have been tested.

7. Prison is one of the worst places on the planet.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because if you go there a lot then it will be the worst places for you.

8. It is wrong for people under the age of 21 to drink alcohol.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because in the muslim state outlaw till that appropriate age.
9. Sister Carrie was written by Theodore Dreiser.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because she wrote the book.

10. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won eleven Oscars (Academy Awards).

Fact or Opinion Explain: because it had the best pictures and it was nominated.

11. Oranges contain both calcium and vitamin C.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because it only has 5 % of calcium and the peel of the orange has a lot of
vitamin c.
12. The television show The Simpsons is just not as funny as it used to be.
Fact or Opinion Explain: because it shows inappropriate things and it is not funny at all.
13. Diamonds are the hardest substance on Earth.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because the diamond is much greater than any natural process.
14. McDonalds sells more hamburgers than any other restaurant chain in the world.

Fact or Opinion Explain: Macdonald best selling food is their hamburger and are known as one of the
famous fast food restaurant.

15. Horse manure smells awful.

Fact or Opinion Explain: Fact because horse manure is poo.

16. The price of gas has grown to become too expensive.

Fact or Opinion Explain: Fact because in 1974 it was 53 cents and now it is about 40,50 or 60 dollars.

17. Chicken has more protein carrots.

Fact or Opinion Explain: Chicken are known to supply protein while carrots are vitamins,

18. The more money someone has the more successful they are.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because when they have lots of money they think about spending it all that they
don’t even realise that they have no money left.
19. Vegetarians are healthier than people who eat meat.

Fact or Opinion Explain: Opinion because vegetarian didn’t consume protein as normal people does.
20. Cell phones emit radiation that may or may not cause brain cancer.

Fact or Opinion Explain: a mobile phone has a strong correlation between the two.

21. Students have a lot harder time in school than the teachers.

Fact or Opinion Explain: the teachers have much harder thing than the students.

22. Popular music today is not as good as it was in the past.

Fact or Opinion Explain: there are much more cool music now and most of them was really old songs.

23. It is illegal to yell out “Fire” in a crowded movie theater.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because if no one gets out then everything is going to catch on fire and
maybe even them.

24. People should not be allowed to talk on cell phones in a movie theater.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because if you talk on your cell phone then you will get kicked out and it
will distract other people when they're watching a movie.
25. Drug dealers belong in prison.

Fact or Opinion Explain: because they put an effect on our environment and they could even sell it to
kids that will affect them more.