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Topic - Correct Answer ✔✔ the general subject of the text
Main idea - Correct Answer ✔✔ the key message or thesis of the text
Key points - Correct Answer ✔✔ key points and their supporting details develop the
main idea
Summary - Correct Answer ✔✔ a brief restatement of the main idea and the most
important key points and details
Inference - Correct Answer ✔✔ a conclusion reached by critical thinking, reading
between the lines, applying logic to facts and evidence while recognizing context clues
Inference (explicit) - Correct Answer ✔✔ clearly stated
Inference (implied) - Correct Answer ✔✔ implied; not directly stated
Conclusion - Correct Answer ✔✔ a deduction made about an unstated outcome based
on prediction, details, evidence, and results
Descriptive - Correct Answer ✔✔ includes sensory details to create a clear mental
picture for the reader
Expository - Correct Answer ✔✔ informs, explains, or tells how to do something; uses
only facts and examples
Narrative - Correct Answer ✔✔ tells a story to entertain, inform, or challenge
Persuasive - Correct Answer ✔✔ includes facts and strong opinions to make the reader
feel, think, or behave a certain way
Bias - Correct Answer ✔✔ tendency toward a preconceived idea
Connotative meaning - Correct Answer ✔✔ the implied meaning of a word, with
assumptions or an emotional charge attached to it
,Denotative meaning - Correct Answer ✔✔ the standard dictionary definition of a word
Rhetorical device - Correct Answer ✔✔ stylistic language used to have an emotional or
persuasive effect on the reader
Tone - Correct Answer ✔✔ the writer's attitude or emotions concerning the topic
Argument - Correct Answer ✔✔ a point the author believes
Compare and Contrast - Correct Answer ✔✔ to compare means to look for similarities;
to contrast means to look for differences
Prediction - Correct Answer ✔✔ a reader's guess of what could happen, based on
details found in the text
Primary source - Correct Answer ✔✔ a firsthand, unaltered document by the original
author or creator; includes novels, letters, original research papers, datasets, paintings
photographs
Secondary source - Correct Answer ✔✔ a document that analyzes, discusses, or
reproduces a primary source; includes textbooks and many other nonfiction books,
review articles, biographies
Tertiary source - Correct Answer ✔✔ a reference work that consolidates information
from primary and secondary sources; includes encyclopedias, handbooks, study guides
PEMDAS - Correct Answer ✔✔ parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division,
addition, and subtraction
Least common denominator - Correct Answer ✔✔ the smallest number into which two
or more denominators will divide evenly
Decimals - Correct Answer ✔✔ represent parts of a whole
Ratio - Correct Answer ✔✔ a comparison between the quantity of one item and the
quantity of another item
Mean - Correct Answer ✔✔ the average of a set of numbers
Median - Correct Answer ✔✔ the middle number
Mode - Correct Answer ✔✔ the number that appears most often in a set of numbers
Range - Correct Answer ✔✔ measures the spread of a given set of numbers
Area - Correct Answer ✔✔ the amount of space within the boundary of the shape
, Perimeter - Correct Answer ✔✔ the distance around the shape
Volume - Correct Answer ✔✔ the amount of space the object occupies or can hold, as
measured in cubic units
Pythagorean theorem - Correct Answer ✔✔ applies to right triangles; a^2 + b^2 = c^2
Acute angles - Correct Answer ✔✔ angles <90 degrees
Hypotenuse - Correct Answer ✔✔ the side opposite the right angle
Straight angle - Correct Answer ✔✔ 180 degree angle
Celsius to Fahrenheit - Correct Answer ✔✔ (C x 1.8) + 32
Fahrenheit to Celsius - Correct Answer ✔✔ (F - 32) / 1.8
Independent variable - Correct Answer ✔✔ can be manipulated
Dependent variable - Correct Answer ✔✔ the variable that is a possible effect
Balance - Correct Answer ✔✔ instrument used to measure an object's mass
Correlation - Correct Answer ✔✔ the relationship between variables
Positive correlation - Correct Answer ✔✔ both variables move in the same direction
Negative correlation - Correct Answer ✔✔ one variable increases while the other
decreases
Distribution of data - Correct Answer ✔✔ symmetry, unimodal, bimodal, bell curve,
skewed, uniform
Meniscus - Correct Answer ✔✔ the curve at the surface of a liquid in a tube
Outlier - Correct Answer ✔✔ a value that does not fit the pattern in the data
Simple probability - Correct Answer ✔✔ equals the number of specific desired
outcomes divided by the total number of possible outcomes
Standard deviation - Correct Answer ✔✔ expresses how much a set of values is spread
out from the mean
Coefficients - Correct Answer ✔✔ numbers that can be multiplied by one or more
variables