Academic Vocabulary
Earth Science
Algebra
English
Basic Math
100
a statement that a writer wants to discuss or prove
What is a thesis statement ?
100
shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
What is an earthquake?
100
a sentence that contains an equal sign
What is an equation?
100
a short prose fiction usually depicting a single incident (unlike most novels).
What is a short story?
100
234 X 3
What is 702?
200
using words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny (adjective)
What is ironic?
200
round depressions on the moon's surface
What are craters?
200
a(b+c)=(ab)=(ac)
What is the distributive property?
200
the main idea (but not necessarily the subject) of a work of literature; an idea which a work explores; or an argument that a work advances.
What is a theme?
200
Jeff swims 20 laps every day. How many laps will he swim in one week?
What is 140 laps?
300
something (such as a situation) that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible
What is a paradox?
300
movement of Earth that is responsible for night and day
What is rotation?
300
have the same variables with the same exponents (can only add or subtract if you have these)
What are like terms?
300
the use of an object to mean something more than its literal meaning
What is a symbol?
300
5 X 6 X 7
What is 210?
400
a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness
What is pathos?
400
the physical and chemical processes that transform sediments into sedimentary rocks
What is lithification?
400
a comparison of 2 numbers by division
What is ratio?
400
when one event is expected to occur but the opposite happens. A discrepancy between what seems to be and what is
What is situational irony?
400
23 divided by 4
What is 5.75 or 5 r3?
500
A combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness)
What is an oxymoron?
500
a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the periodic law
What is the periodic table?
500
the set of numbers expressed in the form of a fraction a/b where a and b are integers and b cannot equal 0.
What are rational numbers?
500
He said, But soft, what light from yonder window breaks?
Who is Romeo?
500
45% of what is 9?
What is 20?
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