All About the Earth
scorpions, roadrunners, snakes, humans, elk, trees, plants, hummingbirds
What are biotic factors?
This genre is when an author tells important details about his or her life (as in Brown Girl Dreaming).
What is a memoir?
This would be high winds during a storm in the central plains moving in a circular pattern.
What is a tornado?
This is when you read the text and have to use the text to make a prediction about what it doesn't directly say.
What is make an inference?
A roller coaster at the top of an incline has lots of this!
What is gravitational potential energy?
rocks, sunlight, water, pebbles, sand
What are examples of abiotic factors?
This genre is usually a play with a script.
What is a drama?
The differences in time it takes for water and ketchup to flow from the top to the bottom of a tray is because of this type of data description.
What is thicker liquids take longer to travel than thinner liquids?
When reading a text and you come across an unfamilar word, this is what you use to determine the meaning.
What are context clues?
This is a shortened version of a text that includes main ideas and not so many details. It "hits the high points."
What is a summary?
A sea breeze happens under these conditions.
What is during the day when the land heats faster than the surface of the sea?
an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.
ex:"love and honor are the pivotal themes of the Hornblower books"
ex. THE MEssage
What is theme?
This is one reason why colder water is found at the bottom of the ocean.
What is cold water is more dense and sinks?
If a two part question and I cannot find text in part b to support my answer in part A, this is what I should do.
What is look back at the text and determine if I should choose a different answer in part A?
examples include: he, she, it, we, me, I, they, us,
What are pronouns?
Cloudy skies occur.
This happens when the air pressure drops.
This is when the author uses pronouns such as I to tell the story. It is the point of view from one particular character's perspective.
What is first person p.o.v.?
These eat producers.
What are primary consumers?
This is another word for opinion. You may be asked to find this from a text which will be supported by facts.
What is a claim?
A rubberband stretched and released is an example of this change.
What is potential elastic energy to kinetic energy?
This causes ocean currents to bring deep, nutrient-rich water to the surface.
What is cold water from the poles sinks, pushing deep water upward.
This is what I should do if I read an unfamiliar poem or a poem with old English or other unfamiliar dialect of English.
What is read it with words that seem similar to the language used in the poem?
Wind is caused by this?
The motion of air due to warm air rising and colder air sinking.
If given a dictionary entry for a word, this is how I should determine which entry to use.
What is read all the options and determine which is most like what is asked.
It helps to maintain body heat by an animal.
What happens to some of the energy in a green plant when it is consumed by an animal?