A | B |
Product | answer to multiplication |
quotient | answer to division |
difference | answer to subtraction |
sum | answer to addition |
more | subtraction |
share | division |
fraction | dividing |
total | add |
each | multiply or divide |
area | length times width |
perimeter | adding all the sides |
hexagon | 6 sided |
pentagon | 5 sided |
quadrilateral | 4 sided |
vertice | point in the middle of an angle; <aBc |
parallel lines | never meet |
line segment | beginning and end point |
symmetry | can be split in half and folded over on itself |
perpendicular lines | two lines that make a right angle |
intersecting lines | make a t or an x |
8 ounces | 1 cups |
2 cups | 1 pint |
2 pints | 1 quart |
4 quarts | 1 gallon |
12 inches | foot |
3 feet | yard |
kilometer | about half a mile |
kilometer | 1000 meters |
100 centimeters | meter |
1000 millimeters | meter |
ton | 2000 pounds |
5600 divided by 80 | take away the same amount of zeroes from each side; 560 divided by 8 |
Tenths place | first number after the decimal; .1 |
hundredths place | second number after the decimal: .01 |
thousandths place | third number after the decimal; .001 |
acute angle | less than 90 |
obtuse angle | more than 90 |
right angle | 90 degrees |
reflex angle | more than 180 degrees or the back end of the angle |
straight angle | exactly 180 |
circle | 360 |
triangle | 180 |
quadrilateral | 360 |
symmetry | any REGULAR shape will have the same number of lines of symmetry as angles; Octagon 8 sides 8 lines of symmetry |
prime numbers | only factors are 1 and itself; 2, 3, 5, 7, 11... NOT ALL ODD NUMBERS ARE PRIME |
composite numbers | have more than one set of factors to get them; 4, 6, 9, 12, .... |
60 seconds | minute |
60 minutes | hour |
kilogram | 1000 grams |
gram | 1000 milligrams |
16 ounces | pound |
kilogram | about 2 pounds |
hyperbole | exageration |
simile | comparison using like or as |
metaphor | comparison with OUT like or as |
onomatopoeia | a sound like BAM, GRRR, MEOW |
alliteration | usually a tongue twister that uses the same sound over and over |
adages | short sayings usually said by an adult that teach a lesson |
idioms | phrases that can't be taken literal because they have another meaning |
personification | giving something human qualities |
fable | usually has animals and teaches a lesson |
poetry | rhythm, stanzas, and lots of sensory imagery |
legend | usually tries to explain something humans have seen |
fairy tale | usually begins with "once upon a time" and is read for entertainment |
sensory imagery | describing things using your senses |
inference | something that you know is true but is never mentioned in the story; invisible fact |
forshadowing | usually details that don't belong or things that repeated to much that provide a clue to something that will happen in the future |
resolution | the answer to the plot; death, winning, finding what you were looking for,... |
plot | the problem in the story |
protagonist | the hero |
antagonist | the person or thing going against the hero; can be disease, weather, bad luck.. |
setting | where the story takes place |
thesaurus | resource used to find synonyms and antonyms for words |
atlas | a book of maps |
contractions | hadn't, couldn't, he'd, I'm |
adverbs | usually answer the question HOW and describe the ver |
predicate | first verb |
subject | first noun |
compound subject | two nouns connected by a conjunction |
compound predicate | two verbs connected by a conjunction |
adjective | words that describe a noun or verb using sensory imagery |
conjunction | and, or, nor, but, either, neither |
transition words | because, if , then, before, after, next, first, initially, in conclusion |
introductory to topic sentence | gives the main idea |
conclusion | remind grandma of the two or three most important things |
caption | words around or under a picture describing what is happening |
illustration | picture |
pronouns | he, she, we, they |
subject pronouns | pronouns that can be used at the beginning of the sentence and sound correct |
object pronouns | can't be used at the beginning of a sentence; me, them, us.. |
possessive pronouns | his, hers, ours, their, mine... |
interrogative | question????????????? |
imperative | command or request made eye to eye |
declarative | boring sentence that is just a statement |
exclamatory | excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
compound sentence | two sentences connected by a conjunction and a comma |
complex sentence | a sentence and a fragment that can't stand by itself; has a subordinate conjunction like because or if |
fragment | incomplete thought |
runon | two or more sentences that haven't been put together the correct way |
simple sentence | has a subject and predicate |
Concave lens | converging lens that makes light spread out like on a flashlight; bends in like a cave entrance,  |
convex lens | thickest in the middle and makes things bigger; microscope and magnifying glass,  |
concave mirror | like the inside of a spoon causing things to appear upside down |
reflection | bouncing off like a ball,  |
refraction | light changes direction or bends due to the type of matter it is going through; slows light down,  |
amplitude | how loud,  |
wave height | the bigger the wave the louder the sound; the greater the force that was used to start it,  |
wave frequency | the more waves you see the higher the pitch,  |
pitch | how high or low a sound is,  |
tension | the tighter something is like a string or rubber band the higher the pitch |
thickness | lower the sound |
bigger objects | have lower sound |
prism | white light goes through it creating a spectrum or rainbow |
Give me Liberty or give me Death | Patrick Henry during the American Revolution |
Committees of Correspondence | wrote letters back and forth between the colonies to let each other know what King George 3rd up to |
condensation | happens when warm air with water vapor in it lands on something colder; dew on the grass; clouds in the sky; and sweat on a can of Coke,  |
evaporation | occurs when heat energy causes water to turn into a vapor that becomes lighter and rises,  |
precipitation | occurs when the water in a cloud becomes to big to remain in the air; rain, sleet, snow, hail |
cirrus clouds | sunny and usually high pressure; wispy clouds that look like little strings of smoke,  |
stratus clouds | blanket clouds that mean rain and low pressure |
Lexington and Concord | First shots of revolution; shot heard round the world,  |
Battle of Yorktown | Final major battle of revolution; Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington,  |
Guerrilla warfare | Fighting like Indians using the woods and sneak attacks |
George Washington | Commander and chief of Continental Army |
No taxation without Representation | Rallying cry of the Patriots against King George 3rd for taxing them without listening to them |
Boston | A focus for most of the war by the Redcoats; Boston massacre and tea party here |
Sons of Liberty | Patriots who dressed up like Indians and dumped tea in the Boston Harbor |
Barometer | Looks like a clock and measures air pressure,  |
Rain gauge | A cylinder used to collect and measure precipitation amounts,  |
Anemometer | Measures wind speed,  |
Wind vane | Tells direction of wind,  |
Humidity | Amount of water vapor in air; if 100% then raining,  |
cumulonimbus | thunder clouds that are connected to cold fronts ant possibly tornadoes,  |
conquistadors | spanish explorers whose main goal was to conquer the indians and take their gold,  |
stratus clouds | clouds that look like blankets over the sky and usually mean rain and L pressure,  |