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The Magic Of Math
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World War What?
100
I am the process of creating an educated guess before reading something.
What is "making an inference"?
100
I am the word used to describe a type of story. "Science Fiction", "Fantasy", and "Autobiography" are good examples of me.
What is "genre"?
100
I am the type of graph that uses pictures or symbols to stand for data.
What is a "pictograph"?
100
I am the main difference between learned and inherited traits.
What is learning how to do something vs. being born with the ability to do something?
100
I am the immediate cause of World War I.
What is "The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand"?
200
When I'm trying to understand the theme or topic of a paragraph, I look at this.
What is the main idea sentence?
200
When you read a complete sentence, it should have these four obvious signs.
What are "initial capital letter, subject, predicate, end punctuation"?
200
I am a graph that uses a grid and lines to demonstrate data and ideas.
What is a "line graph"?
200
I am the cycle describing a process that provides clean air for both plants and animals.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
I am the term used to describe the political atmosphere of Europe before World War I broke out. Any spark was likely to set me off.
What is "powder keg"?
300
I can use either one of these strategies when I'm tackling the STAAR Reading test.
What is PURSE or RIPE?
300
When I use all of my strategies, attempt to prove my work, and still can't be certain of the right answer, I should do this on the STAAR test.
What is "pick your first guess"?
300
We are the three basic metric units for length, volume, and mass.
What are the meter, liter, and gram?
300
I am the process that an animal undergoes as it changes from one form to another.
What is metamorphosis?
300
We are the Central Powers of World War I.
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)?
400
I am a word that begins with a "c". I describe what's going on in an illustration.
What is a caption?
400
A comparison in poetry using the words "like or as" is called this.
What is a "simile"?
400
This is a tool I can use on the STAAR Math test. It's very useful when I'm trying to measure anything.
What is the STAAR mathematics chart?
400
I am the evolutionary change that an animal or plant slowly makes over time as it responds to changes in its physical environment.
What is an adaptation?
400
We are new deadly types of technology that caused many casualties and deaths in World War I. You should be able to name at least three of us.
What are airplanes, submarines, poisonous gas, tanks, and machine guns?
500
I am the "S" in PURSE.
What is "summarize paragraphs"?
500
I am the name of a word that is a directly opposite of another word. For example, beautiful is the direct opposite of ugly.
What is an "antonym"?
500
I am the largest customary unit used for measuring mass.
What is the ton?
500
I am an animal's home. People often destroy me without thinking about the consequences this will have on animals' ability to survive.
What is a habitat?
500
We are the seven main causes of World War I. You should be able to name at least five. You get twice as much money if you can name us all.
What is the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the arms race, secret alliances and treaties, the political "powder keg", the Zimmerman telegram, the sinking of the Lusitania, and extreme nationalism?