Parts of Speech
A person, place or thing
What is a noun?
5 X 200 =
What is 1,000
Large pieces of the earth's crust that are under the ground and ocean. They move and can cause earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates?
The things that support a main idea?
What are supporting details, evidence or facts?
The country that the land that is now San Diego belonged to before 1800.
What is Spain?
an action word
What is a Verb?
If I started running at 4:15 and ran for an hour and a half, what time di I finish?
What is 5:45?
Two types of material that come out of volcanos.
What are lava and ash?
something you are not told, but you figure out from clues in the reading.
What are inferences?
The country that what is now San Diego belonged to between 1821 and 1848.
What is Mexico?
It describes a noun
What is an adjective?
I I divide 81 M&Ms equally between 9 kids, how many M&Ms does each person get?
What is 9 M&Ms?
things we use to power cars, heat homes and run factories. They come from dead plant ant animal material.
What are fossil fuels?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
They were responsible for most of the building of the Transcontinental Railroad that started in California.
What is Chinese American workers?
It describes how something is done.
What is an adverb?
1/2 + 1/4 =
What is 3/4?
3 examples of green energy.
What are (list 3 of the following):
solar energy, hydroelectric energy, nuclear energy, wind energy, wave energy, geothermal energy?
A type of writing that is made up, but includes real events from the past.
What is historical fiction?
They have been in California for more that 100,000 years.
What is Native Americans?
or Kumeyaay?
It connects 2 different ideas or things in a list.
What is a conjunction?
A triangle that has 3 sides of different lengths?
What is a scalene triangle?
This causes electricity to move (make a current)
What is a negative or positive charge?
(opposites attract, same charges repel)
A way of discovering the meaning of an unknown word by looking at text, headings, and pictures around the word.
What is using context clues?
The 3 branches of the California Government.
What are the legislative, executive and judicial branches?