A way to write a number by showing the value of each digit. Example: 243 = 200 + 40 + 3
What is expanded form?
The number of pints in 1 gallon
What is 8?
The value of each digit in a number, based on the location of the digit
What is place value?
A word with the same or similar meaning as another word
What is a synonym?
A story about a crime that needs to be solved
What is a mystery?
To use what I know and what the story says to figure out what is happening or how a character is feeling
What is inference? (to infer)
The variable that is changed by a scientist when conducting a scientific investigation
What is independent variable?
The lowest number that is a multiple of 2 or more given numbers
What is the least common multiple (or LCM)?
A rectangle with 4 congruent sides and 4 right angles
What is a square?
Lines in the same plane that have exactly one point in common
What are intersecting lines?
A meaningful word part that is attached to the end of a root or base word (example: -ly)
What is a suffix?
The characters and events are made up but could really happen
What is realistic fiction?
This type of text structure includes adjectives or gives a lot of detail about a person, place, situation, or topic.
What is to describe?
Large and dark clouds that may produce thunderstorms
What is cumulonimbus clouds?
A number that consists of a whole number and a proper fraction
What is a mixed number?
The path or distance around a plane figure
What is perimeter?
Figures that have the same size and shape
What are congruent figures?
A meaningful word part that is attached to the beginning of a root or base word (example: re-)
What is a prefix?
A collection of words that express an emotion or idea, sometimes with a specific meaning, sound or rhythm
What is poetry?
In a text, information that organizes two or more sets of data side-by-side in columns and rows
What is a table or chart?
Measures atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
The largest factor shared by 2 or more given numbers
What is the greatest common factor (or GCF) ?
The amount of time that has passed between two given times
What is elapsed time?
The probability when there is no chance that an event will occur
A word opposite in meaning to another word
What is an antonym?
A story about fictional or real events
What is narrative?
This type of text structure includes something that happened and the reasons why it happened.
When planets turn on their own axis, it is called _______.
What is rotation?
A fraction whose numerator is equal to or greater than the denominator
What is an improper fraction?
The number of inches in 1 yard
What is 36?
Part of a line that has one endpoint and extends indefinitely in one direction
What is a ray?
A part of a word that contains one vowel sound
What is a syllable?
A nonfiction text that contains facts and information
What is informational text?
Breaks text into small sections and helps the reader to understand what the section of text will be about
What is a heading?
Caused by the gravitational pull of the moon
What are tides?
What is 'and'?
The number of square units needed to cover a surface or plane figure
What is area?
A type of graph used to display data that changes over time
What is a line graph?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently, like ate and eight
What are homophones?
A story with talking animals; teaches a lesson or moral
What is a fable?
A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
The pressure system that results from air rising, leading to stormy weather and strong winds
What is low pressure?