By the Book
Terminology
Concepts
E-Mail Etiquette
Grab Bag
100

To ruin something is to _______________ it. 

What is destroy? 

100

A shortage of food that may cause people to starve.

What is a famine?

100

What you expect that day for weather conditions. 

What is climate?

100

Identify the error in the Salutation

Good morning Mr. scheitler,

Scheitler is a proper noun because it is part of a persons name - so the S should be capitalized.

100

Another name for a heavy downpour of rain.

What is a torrent?

200

Something that occurs at the end. 

What is the final? 

200

To use something in a careful way so that it will not run out. 

What is Conserve?

200

Something that is found in nature and is valuable to humans.  

What are natural resources?

200

Identify the error in the body of this e-mail message.

Would you be available to give me some extra help Friday morning in editing my paper

The body contains a question.  The question mark is missing.

200

These two states have had the most extreme drought conditions over the last 19 years. 

What are Arizona and Nevada? 

300

In the Nigerian folktale, did the fire or water win?

What is the water?

300

A large area of a country. Example: Midwest

What is region?

300

A place where water is collected as a water supply. 

What is a reservoir? 

300

Identify the error in the closing part of the e-mail.

Thanks for your conversation

Conversation does not make sense.  It should say consideration.

300

To make polluted by adding something harmful. 

What is contaminated?

400

The part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea. 

What is a noun? 

400

To make something new from something old. 

What is recycle? 

400

Water vaporizing into the air, falling back to Earth, and vaporizing again. 

What is the water cycle?

400

Identify one error in the signature of the e-mail for an 8th grade student

John

8th Grade

The last name is missing and the periods that he has the class is missing as well. 

400

One word that can be separated into two separate words to help determine its meaning.

What is a compound word?

500

The part of speech that expresses an action, or a state of being. 

What is a verb? 

500

The ability to have or use something. 

What is access?

500

Our surroundings. 

What is the environment? 

500

This is the part of the e-mail where you give your message a title. 

What is the subject?

500

Kind, Respectful, Responsible, Safe, Active Learners

What is the Lynx Way?