ELA - Part 1
What is a simile?
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as."
What is the overall emotion created by a work of literature?
Mood
Put the following in order of increasing complexity: Organ system, Organism, Cell, Tissue, Organ, Population
Cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population
Stored energy is called?
Potential energy)
To find the slope of a line you must use the equation
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y2 - y2 / x2 - x1
What is a preposition?
A word that shows direction, location, movement, time to another word.
What is the conversation between two characters called?
Dialogue
Time is a variable that you CAN change, this is what type of variable?
Independent variable
Earthquakes are caused by __________ colliding.
Tectonic plates
In a scatter plot the point that is away from the line of best fit is called the .
Outlier
Name the three kinds of appeals in persuasive writing.
Appeal to emotion, appeal to authority, appeal to reason
What part of speech is a work that takes the place of a noun?
Pronoun
To make observations you should use your __________.
Name two body systems that control movement.
Muscular system, skeletal system, nervous system
Vertical Line Test
What are three reasons authors write?
To inform, to persuade, and to entertain
What is a series of related events that make up a story?
Plot
A dominate trait is represented by what kind of letter?
Capital letter
An educated guess that drives an experiment.
Hypothesis
Solve 7-2
1/49
What figurative language is giving human qualities to something no human?
Personification
What is the most important idea expressed in a piece of writing?
Main Idea
What is the energy of motion called?
Kinetic energy
This type of force changes the direction of an object.
Unbalanced force
A ladder is placed 5 ft. away from a house. The ladder comes up to 12 ft. on the side of the house. What is the height of the ladder?
13 feet