RLA Vocab
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word
What is an antonym?
The answer when you multiply two factors.
What is the product?
An arrangement of the elements according to their properties and atomic number
What is the period table?
Facts, statistics, and other information that prove or disprove an argument or claim.
What is evidence?
The information that supports the main idea in a text?
What are details or supporting details?
An action that makes something else happen.
What is cause?
The distance around a circle; the perimeter.
What is circumference?
A characteristic of an organism, often inherited, for example, brown eyes
What is a trait?
Firsthand accounts of an event or experience that created by people during a specific time period.
What are primary sources?
The genetic makeup of an individual organism?
What is a genotype?
The reason(s) an author writes a text?
What is author's purpose?
A method or system for multiplying algebraic factors with more than one term.
What is the F.O.I.L. method?
The transfer of energy from one organism to the next, each organism consuming the previous one.
What is the food chain?
An illustration that makes a point about a political issue or event.
What is a political cartoon?
The process by which green plants convert water and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen using energy absorbed from the sun other light?
What is photosynthesis?
Arguments that are based on personal and often unreasoned opinions, assumptions, and judgements.
What is bias?
In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle; the longest side in a right triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
Mathematical and experimental techniques used to formulate and test a hypothesis.
What is the scientific method?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
Information that uses primary sources to describe historical events.
What are secondary sources?
The presentation of events or steps in a process of the order in which they occur?
What is chronological order?
A pair of numbers that names a point on a coordinate graph, presented in parentheses as (the x-coordinate, the y coordinate).
What is an ordered pair?
The factor or result that is observed, measured and recorded. And The condition that is determined and set by the experimenters (two answers)
What is the _________ variable and the ____________variable?
A system where no one branch of government can have more power over the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
The writer's attitude toward a subject as revealed by the words they choose.
What is tone?