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- Main idea
- The central point or message that a passage conveys, often stated in a topic sentence and supported by details throughout the text.
- Inference
- A logical conclusion drawn from evidence and reasoning in a text rather than from a statement that is directly written.
- Fact vs opinion
- A fact can be verified with evidence, while an opinion expresses a belief, feeling, or judgment that may be debated.
- Text structure
- The organizational pattern of a passage, such as cause-effect, compare-contrast, chronological order, problem-solution, or description.
- Author's purpose
- The reason an author writes a text, commonly to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain, which shapes the content and tone.
- Context clue
- A word, phrase, or sentence near an unfamiliar term that helps a reader infer the term's meaning from surrounding information.
- Bias
- An unfair preference or slant that influences how information is presented, often by omitting or emphasizing selected details.
- Order of operations
- A rule for evaluating expressions in this sequence: parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division from left to right, then addition and subtraction from left to right.
- Percent change formula
- Percent change equals the difference between the new value and the original value, divided by the original value, then multiplied by 100.
- Ratio
- A comparison of two quantities by division, often written as a fraction, with a colon, or with the word to.
- Mean
- The arithmetic average found by adding all values in a data set and dividing the sum by the number of values.
- Median
- The middle value in an ordered data set; if there is an even number of values, it is the average of the two middle values.
- Probability
- The likelihood of an event, calculated as the number of favorable outcomes divided by the total number of possible outcomes.
- Area of rectangle
- The amount of surface inside a rectangle, calculated by multiplying its length by its width.
- Slope
- The steepness of a line, calculated as the vertical change, or rise, divided by the horizontal change, or run, between two points.
- Unit conversion
- A method of changing measurement units by multiplying by a conversion factor that equals one, such as 1,000 meters per kilometer.
- Homeostasis
- The process by which a living organism maintains stable internal conditions, such as temperature, pH, and blood glucose, despite external changes.
- Cell membrane
- A selectively permeable barrier around a cell that controls which substances enter and leave the cell.
- Photosynthesis
- The process by which plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose and oxygen in chloroplasts.
- Newton's first law
- An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion at constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force.
- pH scale
- A scale from 0 to 14 that measures acidity or basicity; below 7 is acidic, 7 is neutral, and above 7 is basic.
- Mitosis
- A type of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth, repair, and asexual reproduction.
- DNA base pairing
- The rule that adenine pairs with thymine and cytosine pairs with guanine in double-stranded DNA.
- Food chain
- A sequence showing how energy and matter move from producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem.
- Subject-verb agreement
- A grammatical rule requiring a singular subject to take a singular verb and a plural subject to take a plural verb.
- Pronoun-antecedent agreement
- A rule requiring a pronoun to match its antecedent in number and gender, such as each student taking his or her book.
- Comma splice
- An error in which two independent clauses are joined only by a comma instead of a conjunction, semicolon, or period.
- Run-on sentence
- An error in which two or more independent clauses are joined without correct punctuation or a coordinating conjunction.
- Active voice
- A sentence construction in which the subject performs the action, as in the nurse gave the medication.
- Passive voice
- A sentence construction in which the subject receives the action, often using a form of to be plus a past participle.
- Apostrophe for possession
- A punctuation rule that uses an apostrophe plus s for singular possession and an apostrophe after s for plural possession.
- Capitalization proper nouns
- The rule that names of specific people, places, organizations, languages, and days are capitalized, while common nouns are not.