Algebra
This term refers to how far a number is from zero regardless of whether it's negative or positive.
What is ABSOLUTE VALUE?
Any of these could be a main impact of an aging population
What are:
1. Increased spending on health care and pensions
2. Increase in the dependency ratio
3. Higher taxes for workers
4. Shortage of workers (and more)
This represents the Earth's geologic history on a chronological time chart.
What is GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE?
This refers to understanding what is read or heard
What is COMPREHENSION?
To express in your own words
What is PARAPHRASE?
A symbol for a number that is unknown
What is VARIABLE?
This empire once ruled Europe
What is the ROMAN EMPIRE?
These are the four geologic time eras.
What are EON, ERA, PERIOD and EPOCH?
Generally, this refers to the most important thing an author wants the reader to know
What is the MAIN IDEA?
Words that we read, say, know and use
What is VOCABULARY?
To undo a previous operation
What is INVERSE OPERATION?
These are the three main "language families" in Europe
What are GERMANIC, ROMANCE and SLAVIC?
This occurs when plant and animal matter decays and leaves a film of carbon on sedimentary rock.
What is CARBONIZATION?
To guess what will happen next
What is PREDICT?
This word means more than one.
What is PLURAL?
An equation where variables represent known values
What is a LITERAL EQUATION?
These were ordered by Catholic Popes to retake the "Holy Land"
What are the CRUSADES?
This type of fossil provide indirect evidence of life.
What is a TRACE FOSSIL?
(examples include: footprints, burrows, etc.)
To put events of a story in chronological order
What is SEQUENCE?
To tell what a word means
What is DEFINE?
This is an equation that uses symbols for less than (<) or greater than (>); values are NOT equal
What is an INEQUALITY?
Fleas on "pack rats" in land-based cargo carried this disease to trade hubs before it spread to humans
What is the BLACK PLAGUE?
Organic material converts into stone or a similar substance
What is PETRIFICATION?
To determine what is meant in a story by using background knowledge and context clues
What is INFERENCING?
To briefly describe what happened or what an article or book is about
What is SUMMARIZE?