Main Idea
Comprehension
Cause and Effect
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Another way to ask for the Main Idea
What is: "What would be a good title for this passage?"
100
The effect weightlessness has on the blood.
What is it causes blood to flow to the head?
100
The effect weightlessness has on muscles.
What is weakness?
100
The path traveled by an object moving around a larger object.
What is orbit?
100
"Life Without Gravity" is this type of essay because it is a short work of nonfiction the explains the effects of weightlessness.
What is an expository essay?
200
Examples, explanations, or reasons that help explain the main idea.
What are supporting details?
200
This might happen if astronauts' bones become very weak.
What is their bones would snap when they returned to Earth?
200
The effect weightlessness has on the spine.
What is the spine straightens out?
200
The force by which any two bodies attract each other.
What is gravity?
200
The number of conjunctions in this sentence: "These men and women faced the discomforts of weightlessness and overcame them."
What is two?
300
Where the main idea of a paragraph is usually stated.
What is topic sentence?
300
This happens if you pour milk in a weightless environment.
What is it forms into balls?
300
The effect weightlessness has on the stomach.
What is nausea?
300
Weak; not strong
What is feeble?
300
The way astronaut Jerry Linenger described his body because he was not used to gravity.
What is a 500-pound barbell?
400
Supports the main idea that weightlessness makes bones "thin and spongy." a. astronauts grow taller b. astronauts lose bone tissue c. astronauts enjoy weightlessness
What is astronauts lose bone tissue?
400
According to "Life Without Gravity," this is the way you will move if you point your head to the left.
What is move to the left?
400
The effect weightlessness has on the blood.
What is: blood from your legs goes to your head?
400
Not anticipated; unforeseen
What is unexpected?
400
I felt like a 500 pound barbell is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
500
The topic sentence for the paragraph: Worst of all is how their stomachs feel. During the first few days in space, the inner ear--which gives people their sense of balance--gets confused. Many astronauts become nauseous. The lose their appetites. Many throw up. Many throw up a lot!
What is: "Worst of all is how their stomachs feel."?
500
The effect an upset in the sense of balance has on the body.
What is nausea?
500
The effect weightlessness has on bones.
What is: they become thin and spongy?
500
the material forming plant or animal cells
What is tissue?
500
This goes in front of a root word.
What is a prefix?
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