Vocabulary
Word that means on topic, appropriate, or closely connected
What is Relevant?
This is a fact, quote, or research that backs up a claim
What is Evidence
What plant has a cow naturally evolved to eat using their second stomach called a rumen.
Grass
teacher grades --> soak in acid, squeezed for the corn oil, ground into a white mush called "mill startch"
Type of paragraph that identifies and explains the similarities and differences between 2 or more people, places, things or ideas
What is Compare & Contrast?
Word that means enough
What is Sufficient?
Word that means off topic or not applicable
Irrelevant
Do cows live longer or shorter because of industrial farming?
SHORTER by almost 1/2 of their life!
4 years --> a year and a half!
These cannot be used in organic farming.
What is pesticides or chemicals?
What is it called when you compare 2 things using like or as?
What is a metaphor?
The author's reason for writing something
What is the Author's Purpose?
This small summary is a statement that tells you the main idea of a chapter or reading.
the gist
What is a disadvantage of industrial farming?
Name 1 food that comes from corn sweeteners?
Teacher grades --> canned fruit, soda, syrup, cheese, frozen foods, peanut butter, bakery sweets
What is non fiction?
The author's feelings about a topic
What is Point of View/Perspective?
What does the term CAFOS stand for in Chapter 5?
concentrated animal feeding operation
Name 2 things that have been added to the cow's diet, not including grass?
Antibiotics, corn, fat, and meat of other dead animals
What is the biggest product of the wet mills for corn?
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
What are the three points of view we have focused on for non-fiction texts? P.I.E.
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Word that means to describe something in precise detail
What is Delineate?
Word used with reasoning that means an argument makes sense and is logical and factual (true).
What is Sound?
Name a reason that corn is used to feed cattle.
Teacher grades
What is resistant starch?
a corn product that your body cannot digest
What is Topic Sentence?