Vocabulary 1
What is a noun?
Person, place, or thing
What is verb?
A word that shows action.
What does the prefix "un" and "in" mean?
Not or opposite of
What is the cause?
The reason why something happened
What is effect?
outcome/result
two words put together to make one
True or False
About 96% of Earth's water is stored in the ocean.
True
What is an adjective?
word that describes a noun
What is a prefix?
Word part that goes in front or beginning of a word.
to us something in a careful way so that it won't run out is known as.....
Conserve
the continuous movement of water between earth and sky is called the.......
water cycle
Name one cycle in the water cycle
Precipitation Condensation
Evaporation
Transpiration
Sublimation
Words that have the same sound, different spellings, and different meanings is called a.......
Homophone
Long spell of very dry weather is called a.........
Drought
Give one example of a Homophone
waste
made polluted by adding something harmful to food or water
contaminated
Based off the "Drought Report" text we read, what is 1 of the 3 effects of droughts stated from the text?
1 of 4
Based off the "Drought Report" text we read, what is 1 of the 4 causes of droughts stated from the text?
1 of 4
a shortage of food that may cause people to starve
Famine
Based off the "Drought Report" text we read, what is 1 of the 3 effects of droughts stated from the text?
1 of 3
What supported claim did the author make in paragraph 9 on the "effects of droughts"
We need clean water
What is the main/central idea?
the most important point about a topic.
What are details?
Facts and information that supports the main/central idea?
What is personification?
Giving human like qualities/characteristics to a non-human thing.
What percentage of water covers Earth's surface?
70%