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Freedoms guaranteed to citizens, including the right to be equally.
civil rights
Needing oxygen to live.
aerobic
main idea
The most important point in a paragraph or passage.
The Confederacy
The southern states during the American Civil War.
contrast
To tell how things, people, events, or places are different.
A person who buys or uses services and goods.
consumer
An economic system in which the means of production are owned privately.
capitalism
The rest of the words in a sentence, or one particular situation
context
bacteria
Simple one-celled organisms.
A political and economic system that does away with private property and places production under government control.
communism
A large region with a certain climate and certain living things.
biome
An idea that the reader figures out based on clues an author presents and what the reader already knows.
inference
The smallest particle of an element.
atom
big bang theory
The widely accepted model of how the universe began and developed.
informal language
Language used in casual speech and writing, including clichés and slang.
A type of illustration that is used to compare sets of information.
bar graph
A type of slow-growing cancer that often appears on the hands or face as an open sore, reddish patch, mole, or scar.
basal cell skin cancer
Documents that spell out agreements between parties or grant a right.
legal documents
Multiplying the numerator of one fraction by the denominator of another fraction; used to solve a proportion and to determine if two fractions are equivalent.
cross-multiply
A six-sided figure in which each side is the same-sized square; a number multiplied by itself three times, represented by the exponent 3; raised to the third power.
The characteristic of being constitutional.
constitutionality
A grid with an x-axis and a y-axis.
Coordinate plane
cross-product
The result of cross multiplication.
informational writing
Nonfiction writing that informs the reader about a topic or idea or explains something.
A policy to prevent the spread of something e.g. communism, to other nations.
containment