Financial Literacy
This is a written plan that tracks how much money you earn versus how much you spend each month.
What is a budget?
Doing this to your software and apps regularly ensures you have the latest security fixes and features.
What is updating?
If a medical chart notes a patient's vital signs, it includes heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, and this pressure measurement.
What is blood pressure?
This one-page document summarizes your education, work history, and skills for potential employers.
What is a resume?
This is the common legal document you sign when renting an apartment that outlines the rules, rent amount, and length of your stay.
What is a lease?
This 3-digit number tells lenders how reliable you are at paying back borrowed money.
What is a credit score?
Before building a skyscraper, a bridge, or a medical device, engineers always create a "MVP." In the tech world, this stands for this 3-word phrase.
What is Minimum Viable Product?
This federally mandated act ensures a patient's medical records and personal health information remain strictly confidential.
What is HIPAA?
This communication skill involves fully concentrating, understanding, and responding to what someone is saying, rather than just waiting for your turn to speak.
What is active listening?
This household device should have its batteries tested twice a year and is usually found on ceilings to warn you of a fire.
What is a smoke detector?
Financial experts recommend saving enough money in this type of account to cover 3 to 6 months of living expenses for unexpected events.
What is an emergency fund?
Before constructing a physical product, engineers use this 3-letter acronym software to create precise, 3D digital blueprints and models.
What is CAD?
Doctors take an oath named after this ancient Greek physician, promising to "do no harm" and uphold ethical standards.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
This is the standard amount of advance notice, measured in weeks, that you should give your employer when resigning from a job.
What is two weeks?
When jump-starting a dead car battery, this color cable connects to the positive terminal, while the black cable connects to the negative.
What is red?
This is the mathematical term for earning interest on top of the interest you’ve already earned, helping your savings grow faster over time.
What is compound interest?
This 12-letter process involves taking apart a competitor's finished product to see how it works and how to replicate or improve it.
What is reverse engineering?
In a hospital emergency room, this 6-letter process is used to sort and prioritize patients based on the severity of their condition.
What is triage?
In the SMART goal framework, the "M" stands for this, meaning you can track your progress with numbers or data.
What is Measurable?
This household item is the safest thing to throw onto a small grease fire on a kitchen stove, whereas throwing water on it will make it explode.
What is baking soda?
This is the form you fill out when starting a job to tell your employer how much federal income tax to withhold from your paycheck.
What is a W-4 form?
Airplane wings, race cars, and wind turbines are all shaped very specifically to reduce this physical force, which acts as air resistance.
What is drag?
When performing CPR on an adult, this is the recommended depth of chest compressions, as well as the ideal rate of compressions per minute.
What is 2 inches and 100 to 120 compressions?
This type of short, persuasive speech is designed to quickly introduce yourself or a business idea to a potential employer or investor.
What is an elevator pitch?
This is the term for the fixed amount of money you must pay out-of-pocket for medical care or car repairs before your insurance company starts paying.
What is a deductible?