Word Origins
What do you call a part of a word that has meaning?
Morpheme
The point of a story is its Main _____ .
Idea
What punctuation occurs at the end of a question?
Question mark.
What do you call the place where an animal lives?
Its habitat.
113 + 79 = ?
192
The prefix "re" means:
Back, again.
A Main Idea is supported by _____ .
details.
What is the first paragraph called in a 5-paragraph essay?
The Introduction.
What three things do plants need to make food and oxygen.
water, chlorophyll, and sunlight.
113 - 79 = ?
34
The who/what in a sentence is the _______ , while the thing that is happening is the ________ .
subject, predicate.
True or False: "It is raining outside." is a fact.
True.
Writing a good sentence means we write with CAPS. What does the acronym CAPS stand for?
Capitalization, Appearance, Punctuation, and Spelling.
What type of animal skeleton has a hard exterior with minimal flexibility?
Exoskeleton.
3 x 280 = ?
840
What is the function of this word? constructive
Adjective.
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach tests her suitors with the action of spilling coffee on their shoes. This test was taught to her by her grandma, making it a family ______ .
tradition
Facts.
What plant structure carries water and nutrients throughout the plant's various parts? It is the structure responsible for what we saw in the celery experiment.
The vascular system.
What is the method used to solve multiplication problems bit by bit?
Partial Products.
All words we have studied in Word Origins so far come from what origin?
Latin.
Mary spent over 3 hours doing the tedious task of completing many multiplication problems.
Based on the context, you can infer that tedious means:
Something repetitive or requiring lots of time.
What are these marks around words called in a story, or what do they mean? ("blah blah blah")
Quotation marks. They mean someone is speaking.
List five senses with which animals can use to respond to their environment.
Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing.
What property allows you to expand a multi-digit number and multiply each component by a 1-digit number?
For example: 7 x 365 = (7 x 300) + (7 x 60) + (7 x 5).
The Distributive Property.