Executive Functioning
The skill of fitting all of your responsibilities and some relaxation time into a 24 hour day is called
Time management
The dog hurt _____________ paw chasing the squirrel.
Its
The three branches of government are
The Legislative
The Exectuive
The judicial
Your main claim, otherwise known as your thesis statement, comes at this point in an essay.
Be specific!
The last sentence of the introduction.
Orcas live in family groups called ___________
pods
The idea of doing something pleasant (like listening to music) while you study or work is called
A spoonful of sugar.
_______________ going to the museum over spring break (in Puerto Rico)!
They're
The idea that no one branch of the government should be too powerful is known as
Checks and balances
The first sentence or sentences of an essay should be a _________________.
Hook
The average age for a female orca in the wild is
60 -80
This is the term for holding information in your mind briefly and manipulating it (for example doing math word problems).
Short term memory
The _______________ of the hurricane will be felt for years to come.
effects
Congress is made up of these two components
The House of Representatives
The Senate
Things such as similes, metaphors and hyperbole in literature are called
Figurative language
or
Literary devices
Trillium, the infamous orca, was captured at age 2 off the coast of this country.
Iceland
Students who learn best through listening to information are known as
Auditory learners
I _______________ by the school after soccer practice.
(past or passed)
passed
How are the number of senators and the number of representatives calculated for Congress for each state?
Senate = 2 per state
Representatives = based on population
Words that sound like the things they represent, such as POW, sizzle and Bang are called
onomatopoeia
Each orca group has its own variation of language, called a __________________, that other groups can't understand.
Dialect
The Pomodoro Technique calls for
25 minutes of stuying
5 minute break
Mary is not _______________ to stay out later than 8:00 until she is 14.
allowed
The First Amendment guarantees these five freedoms
(Must say all five)
Religion
Speech
Press
Petition
Assembly
This punctuation mark takes the place of two closely related sentences.
A semicolon ;
This part of the orca brain, related to empathy and emotion, is very large.
Insular cortex