English 8
True or False
This sentence is written in passive voice.
The ship was overturned by powerful waves.
True
A number that can be written as a ratio of two integers, where the denominator is not zero. The rational numbers are a subset of the real numbers.
What is a rational number?
The arrangement of events by date
What is absolute chronology?
An SI unit used to measure mass.
What is kilogram?
A type of writing that seeks to give you more knowledge.
What is informative writing/essay?
Something written from an author's point of view.
An expression written with a base and an exponent.
What is exponential form?
A document or physical object created during the historical period being studied.
What is primary source?
Something that can be scientifically tested.
What are facts?
A type of writing allows the writer to share his or her feelings about a specific topic.
What is expressive writing?
A blog is an example of one of these.
What is a diary?
In exponential form, the number is used as a factor.
What is base?
The arrangement of events by sequence of occurrence using only the names of the events and not their dates.
What is relative chronology?
All possible genes for a trait.
What are alleles?
A process by which one or more substances are changed into a new substance (or substances) with a different identity.
What is a chemical change?
The sentence: If I were the president, I would create more jobs. Is written in this mood.
What is the subjunctive mood?
A rough approximation of a value, which is found using methods such as rounding, clustering, front-end digits, and compatible numbers.
What is an estimate?
Information gathered by an author comes from reports and articles written by other authors.
What is secondary source?
The smallest unit of a chemical element that still has the chemical properties of that element.
What is an atom?
A process by which matter changes from a gas into a solid.
What is deposition?
The point of the concluding paragraph of a five-paragraph essay.
What is: it summarizes the main topic of an essay?
A number that cannot be written in the form p/q or q/p , where p and q are integers. The number cannot be written as a terminating or repeating decimal.
What is an irrational number?
The feature that helps you understand the colors, shapes, and markings used on a map.
What is a map legend or key?
The number of protons in an atom’s nucleus.
What is the atomic number of an atom?
The study of changes that occur over time.
What is history?