GENERAL
Arranged in the order that events actually happened in time (from first to last).
What is chronological?
The space between two lines that meet at a shared point (the vertex).
What is an angle?
Records of events created by people who were actually there (like diaries, photos, or letters).
What are primary sources?
Two or more substances put together that do not turn into something new (like a salad or a bowl of cereal).
What is a mixture?
The main statement or claim of an essay that the writer must prove using evidence.
What is a thesis?
Two lines that stay the same distance apart and never touch, no matter how far they go.
What is parallel?
Official changes, additions, or "fixes" made to the U.S. Constitution.
What are amendments?
A special kind of mixture where one substance is completely dissolved in another (like saltwater).
What is solution?
To give a brief statement of the main points of a text (the "big picture") without including every small detail.
What is summarize?
A flat, 2D surface that extends forever in all directions (like an endless sheet of paper).
What is a plane?
Unfair laws in the South kept Black and white people segregated (separated) in public places.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The total number of protons plus neutrons inside an atom's center.
What is mass number?
The "big idea," moral, or underlying message about life that an author wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
The total distance around the outside edge of a shape.
What is perimeter?
The movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and West (1916–1970).
What is the Great Migration?
A tiny particle inside the center of an atom that has no charge (it is neutral).
What is neutron?
To explain or make something clear by using examples, stories, or pictures.
What is to illustrate?
The amount of "flat" space inside a 2D shape. Measured in square units
What is area?
The act of a country preparing its troops, supplies, and factories for war.
What is globilization?
The part of a solution that does the dissolving (usually the liquid, like the water).
What is solvent?
The set of rules or standards used to judge or decide something (like a grading rubric).
What is the criteria?
Exactly the same shape and the same size. In geometry, it’s the word for "equal."
What is congruent?
An 1887 law that broke up Native American tribal lands into small individual plots to force them to farm like white settlers.
What is the Dawes Act?
The number of protons in an atom. This number tells you exactly which element it is.
What is an atomic number?
Closely connected or important to the topic you are talking about. "Does it matter right now?"
What is relevant?
Two lines that meet or cross at a perfect 90-degree "square" corner.
What is perpendicular?
The U.S. policy during the Cold War to stop the spread of Communism to new countries.
What is containment?
A tiny particle inside the center of an atom that has a positive (+) charge.
Proton
One of the individual parts that make up a whole system or machine.
What is a component?
The formula (a2+b2=c2) used to find a missing side length of a right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
A person who worked to completely end (abolish) slavery in the United States.
What is an abolitionist?
The part of a solution that gets dissolved (usually the solid, like the salt).
Solute
A strong feeling for or against something or someone, often based on personal opinion rather than facts.
What is bias?
Two angles that add up to exactly 180 degrees (a straight line).
What are supplementary angles?
The idea that the people living in a territory should vote to decide their own laws (like whether to allow slavery).
What is popular Sovereignty?
A tiny particle that circles the outside of an atom and has a negative (-) charge.
Electron
A group of people or things that share similar qualities or features.
What is a category?
Two angles that add up to exactly 90 degrees.
What are complementary angles?
The act of a state "breaking away" or leaving the United States to start its own country.
What is secession?
An "alternate version" of an element. It has the same protons but a different number of neutrons.
Isotope