Math Vocabulary
What is an addend?
A number you add to another.
What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing. Example: teacher, school, pencil.
What is matter?
Anything in the universe that has weight (mass) and takes up space.
What is a map?
A drawing of a place from above.
What does it mean when somethings extinct?
A type of animal, plant, or living thing is completely gone and no longer has any living members left anywhere on Earth
What is a product?
The answer to a multiplication problem.
What is a verb?
An action word example: running, jumping, crawling.
A large round object in space that travels in a circle around a star.
What is a continent?
One of the seven giant bodies of land on Earth. Example: North America, Antarctica, Asia.
What does ancient mean?
Very old or from a long time ago.
What is a sum?
The answer to an addition problem.
What is an adjective
A word describing a noun. Example: blue, happy, excited, scratchy.
What is precipitation?
Water that falls from clouds to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is a government?
A group of people who make laws and keep order.
What does predict mean?
To guess what might happen next.
What is a difference?
The answer to a subtraction problem.
What is a proper noun?
A specific name for a person, place, or thing. Example: Mrs. Laymon, Willoughby Learning Center, Skittles.
What is evaporation?
When liquid water changes into a gas (water vapor) and goes into the air.
What is climate?
The usual weather in a place over a long time.
What does compare mean?
To find how things are similar or different.
What is a quotient?
The answer to a division problem.
What is an adverb?
A word that modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or an entire sentence. Example: quickly, outside, yesterday, extremely, always.
What is an ecosystem?
A community of living things and the nonliving parts of their environment interacting together.
What is an atlas?
A book of maps from around the world.
What does it mean to demonstrate something?
To show clearly how something works or is done.