Key PSSA vocabulary
Reading Vocabulary
Writing Vocabulary
Math Vocabulary
Science Vocabulary
100
To examine in detail.
What is Analyze?
100
To only use facts and avoid opinions.
What is Objective?
100
An extended comparison showing the similarities between two things.
What is an Analogy?
100
A set of positive whole numbers, their opposites and O.
What are Integers?
100
A nonliving factor or element (e.g., light, water, heat, rock, energy, mineral).
What is Abiotic?
200
To conclude from evidence; deduce.
What is Infer?
200
Most important idea from a text.
What is Central Idea?
200
A short account of a particular incident or event.
What is an Anecdote?
200
an equation stating two fractions are equal. An example is a/b=c/d.
What is Proportion?
200
Any of a set of possible forms of a gene.
What is Allele?
300
To find out, judge, or estimate value or worth of.
What is Evaluate?
300
The author's attitude and emotion towards what they are writing about.
What is Tone?
300
To communicate or make known.
What is Convey?
300
What should happen in theory.
What is Theoretical probability?
300
An environmental factor related to or produced by living organisms.
What is Biotic?
400
To express in or as if in an orderly way.
What is Formulate?
400
How text is organized.
What is Structure?
400
To make evident or prove.
What is Demonstrate?
400
Probability based on running through trials (of an experiment).
What is Experimental probability?
400
Those organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms and their remains.
What is Consumer?
500
To tell about in detail, a verbal account.
What is Describe?
500
Meaning that is associated with a word-"bossy" someone who tries to take over.
What is Connatation?
500
To mark off as different; to recognize the prominent features of.
What is Distinguish?
500
The occurrence of one event doesn't affect the probability of the occurrence of the other.
What is Independent event?
500
An organism, often microscopic in size, that obtains nutrients by consuming dead organic matter, thereby making nutrients accessible to other organisms.
What is Decomposer?