Geography
Landforms
Bodies of Water
ELPA21 Tips
Punctuation
Hispanic Heritage Month
Academic Vocabulary: Math
Academic Vocabulary: Science
Academic Vocabulary: Language Arts
Academic Vocabulary: Social Studies
100
This is the study of the Earth's surface.
What is Geography?
100
These high, rocky landforms rise up towards the sky.
What are mountains?
100
There are seven of these large bodies of water on the Earth.
What are oceans?
100
These words help you to move from one idea to the next one.
What are transition words?
100
This symbol marks the end of a sentence.
What is a period?
100
This celebration lasts from September 15 to October 15.
What is Hispanic Heritage Month?
100
This is a unit of measure made up of 12 inches.
What is a foot?
100
This is the name for a living plant or animal.
What is an organism?
100
These are two words that have the same meaning, such as "big" and "large."
What are synonyms?
100
This is a memorized speech that students say every morning to the American flag.
What is the pledge of allegiance?
200
Earth is divided into four of these.
What are hemispheres?
200
This is the low area between mountains.
What is a valley?
200
These bodies of water are smaller than oceans, but much larger than lakes.
What are seas?
200
These impressive words are specific to different school subjects, such as science, math, and social studies.
What are academic vocabulary words?
200
This symbol is used with a conjunction to combine clauses.
What is a comma?
200
This Guatemalan poet wrote "Apolitical Intellectuals."
Who is Otto Rene Castillo?
200
This is what you call figures that have the same size and shape.
What is congruent?
200
These cells have a cell wall and chloroplasts.
What are plant cells?
200
This word is a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
200
This is a piece of cloth that represents a country and flies high on a pole.
What is a flag?
300
This line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
300
This is a deep valley with very steep sides.
What is a canyon?
300
These are large bodies of water surrounded by land.
What are lakes?
300
These sentences contain only one subject and one predicate.
What are simple sentences?
300
This symbol is used to ask a question.
What is a question mark?
300
This organization trained assassins and dictators in Latin America.
What is the school of the Americas?
300
This is the term or scale for measuring temperature where water freezes at 32 degrees.
What is Fahrenheit?
300
This is a series of steps taken to prove an educated guess.
What is an experiment?
300
This type of word shows some kind of action.
What is a verb?
300
This is what you call something that has to do with the city.
What is urban?
400
This marks the top of the Earth.
What is the North Pole?
400
These are flat landforms, often covered in tall grass.
What are plains?
400
These are small bodies of water surrounded by land.
What are ponds?
400
This is a collection of sentences, marked by an indention at the beginning.
What is a paragraph?
400
This symbol is signfies excitement, importance, or urgency.
What is an exclamation point?
400
This group of young Puerto Ricans took over a hospital in New York City.
Who are the Young Lords?
400
This is the amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
400
This is an educated guess that you can test as part of a science experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
400
This type of word describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
400
This is a word used in reference to buying and selling things.
What is trade?
(or What is commerce?)
500
This marks the bottom of the Earth.
What is the South Pole?
500
This landform is very dry, often covered in sand.
What is a desert?
500
This is a large body of flowing water that moves over land in a definite direction.
What is a river?
500
This type of sentence contains two independent clauses that are combined with a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
500
This type of sentence tells us about something. It ends with a period.
What is a statement?
500
This surrealist painter was a feminist, communist, and anti-colonialist.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
500
This is the measure of the entire surface of an object.
What is area?
500
This is the process of turning liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
500
This type of word describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
500
This is what we call East, West, North, and South.
What are cardinal directions?
600
There are seven of these massive landforms on Earth.
What are continents?
600
This is a piece of land that has water all around it.
What is an island?
600
This body of water that flows over land and is smaller than a river.
What is a stream?
600
This type of sentence combines one independent clause with one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
600
This type of sentence asks us something. It ends with a question mark.
What is a question?
600
This Civil Rights activist fought for the rights of Hispanic farm workers in the 1960s.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
600
This is the total distance around the edges of a figure.
What is perimeter?
600
Examples include solids, liquids, and gases.
What are states of matter?
600
These are words that have the opposite meaning, such as "big" and "small."
What are antonyms?
600
This is something found in nature such as water, trees, and minerals that people need and use.
What is a natural resource?
700
This line divides Earth into the Eastern and and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
700
This area of land is next to a body of water, like a beach.
What is a shore?
700
This body of water is surrounded by land on three sides.
What is a bay?
700
This type of sentence combines at least 2 independent clauses with 1 dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
700
This type of sentence tells someone to do something. It usually ends with a period.
What is a command?
700
This US president supported many right wing dictatorships in Latin America during the 1980s.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
700
We measure angles with this unit.
What are degrees?
700
This measurement tells how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
700
This is the story of a person's life.
What is a biography?
700
This is the main city in a state or country where government business takes place.
What is the capital?
800
These are lines that run up and down across the globe.
What is longitude?
800
These are sandy landforms that connect land to the ocean.
What are beaches?
800
Oceans, seas, and bays are examples of this type of water.
What is salt water?
800
These are the four domains of language that will be covered on the ELPA21 exam.
What are listening, speaking, reading, and writing?
800
This type of sentence shows surprise or strong feelings and ends with an exclamation mark.
What is an exclamation?
800
This Colombian novelist wrote many works of Magical Realism, including 100 Years of Solitude.
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
800
This is an algebraic expression with two terms.
What is a binomial?
800
This says matter cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
800
This is the end of a word, used to change the word's meaning. For example, "-ing, -es, -tion."
What is a suffix?
800
These are official government rules.
What are laws?
900
These are lines that run across the globe.
What are lines of latitude?
900
These are the rocky sides of mountains.
What are cliffs?
900
Rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds are usually this type of water.
What is fresh water?
900
This is what the name ELPA21 stands for.
What is English Language Proficiency Assessment for the 21st Century?
900
This symbol shows us someone is speaking or the text is coming from another source.
What are quotation marks?
900
This is the first Latina to serve in the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
900
This is an algebraic expression with three terms.
What is a trinomial?
900
Atoms combine to form these.
What are molecules?
900
This is the beginning of a word that changes the word's meaning, such as "pre-,re-,de-,self-."
What is a prefix?
900
This is when people vote to choose a leader, like president or mayor.
What is an election?
1000
This Greek man was the first to divide maps with a grid of lines.
Who is Ptolemy?
1000
This is the hottest place in the United States.
What is Death Valley?
1000
This is where fresh water mixes with salt water.
What is an estuary?
1000
These nouns are often created by adding "-s, -es, -ies."
What are plural nouns?
1000
This symbol is used to show possession or contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
1000
This cultural movement was created by Mexican Americans as a form of social empowerment and national pride.
What is the Chicano Movement?
1000
This is the formula used to graph lines on coordinate planes.
What is the slope intercept formula?
1000
This is a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction.
What is a catalyst?
1000
This is a literary device used to assign human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
1000
This is the day Americans celebrate independence from British rule.
When is July 4?