ELA
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to non-human things, like saying, "The wind howled in the night."
Personification
This famous theorem, written as a2 + b2 = c2, is used to find the missing side length of a right triangle.
Pythagorean theorem
This is the smallest unit of a chemical element that retains its properties, made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons
Atom
Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, this historic document stated that the thirteen American colonies were free from British rule
In a story, what is the proper term for the villain or bad guy?
Antagonist
In the standard slope-intercept form equation, y = mx + b, this variable represents the slope of the line
m
This fundamental law of physics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another
Law of Conservation of Energy
Name the 7 continents
Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America
This is a huge exaggeration used to make a point, such as saying, "I have a million miles of reading to do for homework"
Hyperbole
This type of geometric transformation slides a shape to a new position on a grid without turning it, flipping it, or changing its size
Translation
According to Newton's First Law of Motion, an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force, a property of matter known by this term
Inertia
This 1803 land deal between the United States and France doubled the size of the young nation for a price of about fifteen million dollars
Louisiana Purchase
This type of punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses (complete sentences) without using a conjunction like and or but.
Semicolon
Written in scientific notation, the number 4.5 x 103 is equal to this standard number
(NO CALCULATORS)
4,500
This property of matter measures how tightly packed the mass in an object is, and it is calculated by dividing mass by volume (D = m/v)
Density
This 19th-century belief held that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its dominion and spread democracy across the entire North American continent
Manifest Destiny
These are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, such as their, there, and they're
Homophones
This type of number cannot be written as a simple fraction because its decimal goes on forever without repeating, like pi or square root of 2
Irrational number
This type of heat transfer occurs through the direct contact of two objects, like a metal spoon heating up in a hot bowl of soup
Conduction
Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 during the Civil War, this presidential proclamation declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory were fre
Emancipation Proclamation
Who is your favorite ELA teacher?
Mrs. Johnson :)