General Academic
To tell the main parts of a story in a short way.
What is to summarize.
Two lines that stay the same distance apart and never touch.
What is parallel.
Records made by people who were actually there (like a diary or photo).
What are primary sources.
Two or more things put together that can be separated again.
What is mixture.
Being unfairly for or against something before knowing all the facts.
What is bias.
The space between two lines that meet at a point.
What is an angle.
Changes or additions made to the Constitution.
What are amendments.
A mixture where one thing is completely dissolved into another (like salt water).
What is solution.
One sentence that tells the main point of your whole essay.
What is a thesis.
The distance around the outside of a shape.
What is perimeter.
Unfair laws used to keep people separated by race.
What are Jim Crow Laws.
The liquid that does the dissolving (like the water).
What is solvent.
Something that is closely connected to what you are talking about.
What is relevant.
The amount of space inside a flat shape.
What is area.
A person who worked to end slavery.
What is abolitionist.
The part of a solution that gets dissolved (like the salt).
What is solute.
The main lesson or message of a story.
What is theme.
When two shapes are the exact same size and shape.
What is congruent.
Getting troops and supplies ready for war.
What is mobilization.
A tiny part of an atom with a negative (-) charge that moves around the outside.
What is electron.
To show something clearly using pictures or examples.
What is to illustrate.
Two lines that cross each other to make a perfect corner (90 degrees).
What is perpendicular.
When millions of Black Americans moved North for jobs and safety.
What is the Great Migration.
A tiny part of an atom with no charge (it is neutral).
What is neutron.
Putting events in the order of when they happened (time order).
A flat surface that goes on forever in all directions.
What is a plane.
A law that split up Native American land into small pieces for individuals.
What is the Dawes Act.
A tiny part of an atom with a positive (+) charge.
What is proton.
A group of things that are all similar.
What is category.
Two angles that add up to 90 degrees (a square corner).
What are complementary angles.
A plan to stop the spread of something (like Communism).
What is containment.
An atom that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons.
What is an isotope.
One part of a larger whole.
What is a component.
Two angles that add up to 180 degrees (a straight line).
What are supplementary angles.
When a part of a country breaks away to start its own government.
What is secession.
The total weight of an atom (protons plus neutrons).
What is mass number.
The rules used to judge or grade something.
What is criteria.
A math rule used to find the length of the sides of a right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem.
The idea that the people should vote to make their own decisions.
What is popular sovereignty.
The number of protons in an atom; it tells you what the element is.
What is atomic number.