Informative Writing
Science: Brain, Motion, Optical Illusions
The Emperor's Silent Army
Vocabulary: Latin Roots
Vocabulary: Multisyllabic Words
100

A piece of writing that informs you or tells facts about something and requires research.

What is an informative / expository essay?

100
An image that deceives (tricks) the eye.

What is an optical illusion?

100

What did archaeologists find buried in China, according to the text?

What was the terra cotta army?

100

A book OR something new.

What is novel?

100

A vegetable similar to broccoli.

What is a cauliflower?

200

The final paragraph of an informative essay, where you summarize everything you wrote.

What is a conclusion?

200

We (tried to) build this in class so we could see images moving.

What is a zoetrope?

200

A person who digs to find artifacts from the past.

What does an archaeologist do?

200

To stop everything.

What is suspend?

200
Fake.

What is artificial?

300
The first paragraph of an informative essay, which tells the reader what the essay is going to be about.

What is an introduction?

300

The range of places you can see with both eyes.

What is field of vision?

300

First emperor of China.

Who is Qin Shi Huang?

300

The number above the denominator.

What is the numerator?

300

A group of people coming together to accomplish something.

What is an organization?

400

A paragraph or paragraphs in which you explain your research in detail and explain your topic.

What is a body paragraph?

400

A part of the brainstem that connects to the brain and the nervous system. Plays a major role in controlling cardiac and respiratory function.

What is the medulla oblongata?

400
Qin Shi Huang's biggest fear.

What is dying?

400

Someone who accomplishes a lot of things.

What is productive?

400

Someone who sees the glass half full.

What is optimistic?

500

What you need to use or do in order to have a good informative essay with true facts.

What is research / what are sources?

500

The part of the brain that's responsible for reasoning. This part is bigger in our brain than in animal's brains.

What is the prefrontal cortex?

500
The Ancient Chinese's beliefs about death.

What is "once you died, you need all your things because your afterlife is a copy of life on earth"?

500

A water source.

What is a reservoir?

500

Doing more than one thing at the same time.

What is simultaneously?

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