EC-6 FlashCards
Capillary Action
Capillary Action
The method that plants use to transport various materials within themselves.
Body systems
digestive circulatory respiratory excretory endocrine nervous reproductive skin muscular nervous skeletal
Capital
Capital
Is accumulated asset such as cash or goods available for investment in order to produce income.
Cardiovascular endurance
It promotes the efficient exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide at lung and tissue levels
Cells
Basic structure of living things that represent the primary level of organization in multicellular organism.
Check and Balances
The idea that abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other branches.
Chemical Energy
The energy that occurs as a result of the bonds of chemicals. An excellent source of chemical energy is food.
Choral Reading
It takes place when a group of students or the entire class reads out loud.
Circumference
Circumference is the distance around a circle. Circumference is used with closed curves like circles and ellipses, while perimeter is used for polygons and other figures. This distance is equal to Pi times the diameter of the circle. PI is a number that is approximately 3.14159.
Classification system for living things.
Classification system for living things
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
Closure of sets
A set is closed under a given operation if when the operation is performed on any two members; the result gives a member of the same set.
Example: The set of a natural number is closed under the operation of addition or multiplication. The set of natural numbers is not closed under the operation of subtraction (3 – 8) or division (23/22)
Cognition
Cognition
Refers to thinking; gaining concepts, ideas, and other language components
Cognitive process
Cognitive process
It refers to the ways of processing information and developing self-awareness as it relates to the exploration of the environment though movement, sight, sound, and taste.
Commutative property of addition
Commutative property of addition
a + b = b + a
Commutative property of multiplication
Commutative property of multiplication
a x b = b x a
Complement of a set
Complement of a set
The complement of a set are the elements in the universal set, but not in the original set A.
Complementary angles
Complementary angles
Two angles whose measures add to a total of 90 degrees.
Composer
Composer
A person who writes music.
Composite number
Composite number
A composite number that is not a prime number, thus it is divisible by another number other that itself and one. Thus it has more than two factores.
Comprehension
Comprehension
Understanding the meaning of spoken language and written language often through the use of taxonomy such as Bloom’s.
Congruent figures
Congruent figures
Two figures are congruent if they have the same shape and size.
Cottage industry
Cottage industry
An industry where the creation of products and services is home based, carried on by family members. It is not factory-based.
Crescendo
Crescendo
A musical symbol to direct the performer to smoothly increase the volume in a musical passage.
Critical listening
Critical listening
Used to understand and evaluate the content of what someone is saying.
Cultural diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Spread of ideas, technology, religion, language and other cultural practices over time and across space.
Culture
Culture
The system of shared beliefs, values, customs, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, roles, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
Demographic Data
Demographic Data
Statistics about the numbers and characteristics of people living in an area.
Desert
Deserts are characterized y generally high temeratures (although they may be cold during the nights and winters), low precipitation, and many adaptations to drought conditions.
Dialogic reading
Refers to the conversations between a teacher and students about a story that has just been read.
Diseases
Are abnormal conditions of the body or mind that cause discomfort or distress to a body part, and organ, or the entiresystem.
Disjoint
Disjoint sets do not have any common elements.
Domestic
Concerning the internal affairs of a nation (such as tax rate, highway construction, homeland security, etc.)
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR)
An identified period of independent silent reading experienced by all learners, including the teacher.
Earth’s atmosphere
Listed from earth up:
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Ionosphere
Thermosphere
Electrical Energy
Energy that occurs as a direct result of moving electric charges.
Emergent literacy
It refers to children’s believes about experiences with reading and writing prior to formal instruction.
Equality
Term used to denote whether two numerical values are the same.
Equation
An equation is a statement where two expressions are equal. A specific value(s) can be determined for the variable in the equation.
Equilateral
An equilateral triangle has three sides of equal length and three angles of equal degrees (60 degrees).
Evaluative comprehension
It refers to the ability to use critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and aesthetic considerations to evaluate a text.
Export
Goods that are sent or transported oversees for sale or trade.
Expository text
It refers to informational books. Focus on educating its reader. Is clear, concise, and organized writing.
Expression
The result of adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing (except by zero) on any combination of variables or constants as well as raising to powers and taking roots. An equal sign does not exist. A specific value cannot be determined for the variable in the expression.
Federalism
The idea that power is divided by the Constitution between the federal (central and national), government and the state governments. The Constitution, treaties, and federal laws are the supreme law of the land. Some powers are delegated to the federal government, others are reserved for the state governments, and other powers are concurrent (shared) by both state and national government.
Five kingdoms
Animal, plants, Protista (viruses and slime molds), monera (bacteria and algae), and fungi.
Fluency
The ability to read text-sources with speed, accuracy, voice expression, and adequate comprehension.
Forms of energy
Kinetic, potential, thermal or heat energy, chemical energy, electrical, electrochemical, electromagnetic (light), sound, nuclear.
Free-enterprise economic system
The system in the U.S. and other free market economies. Freedom of private business to organize and operate for profit in a competitive system without interference by government beyond regulation necessary to protect public interest and keep the national economy in balance.
Fundamental basic skills
Three categories of skills (locomotors, nonlocomotor, and body management) that help us function in our environment.
Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
Every composite number can be expressed as a unique product of prime numbers.
Glaciers
Glaciers,
Large deposits of the ice (sometimes many miles across) that can move across an area leaving deep gashes in the earth.
Grapheme
Grapheme
It refers to the letter or letters that represent a phoneme. For example, the word “ball” consists of three graphemes: a “b” for the /b/ sound, an “a” for the /a/ sound, and an “ll” for the /l/ sound.
Graphemes can consist of one to four letters. We need to teach graphemes so that children recognize them when they need to decode an unfamiliar word.
Graphical organizer
Graphical organizer
A visual representation of textual content; it is used to show the relationships between concepts in a text, to relate new concepts to familiar ones, or to assist comprehension in other ways.
Graphophomemic knowledge
Graphophomemic knowledge
It refers to knowledge about specific relationships between graphemes and phonemes; that is, between letters and sounds.
Guided reading
Guided reading
The teacher explains the purpose for reading a particular text as well as the structure for he how to respond to what is read.
Horizontal asymptote
Horizontal asymptote
A horizontal asymptote is the horizontal line that is graph approaches as he absolute value of x gets a larger without bound. Different from the vertical asymptote, the graph may cross a horizontal asymptote. Horizontal asymptote are formed in two ways from a rational function. When the degree of the numerator is less that the degree of the denominator.
Imaginative process
Imaginative process
It refers to the use of creative drawing, painting, collage, photography, and other forms of art forms to help explore the possibility of understanding the world through its images and symbols.
Immigration patterns
Immigration patterns
Routes of human movement where groups of people enter and settle in a country or region to which they are not native.
Import
Import
Goods brought in from a foreign contry for sales or trade.
Important 18th. Century documents
Important 18th. Century documents
The American political system is grounded in two important 18th century documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Export
Export
Goods brought in from a foreign country for sale or trade.
Industrialization
Industrialization
The process of organizing the production of goods for sales, especially in a factory or a special area setting.
Inferential comprehension
Inferential comprehension
It refers to the understanding of information that is not explicitly given but rather implied in a written passage.
Inquiry teaching
Inquiry teaching
Teachers ask and then help students answer questions by proposing hypotheses, gathering and evaluationg data, and generating conclusions. It is essential to the development f critical thinking. In Social Studies instruction, inquiry teaching becomes increasingly important in helping students solve problems and make decision about real-life issues.
Integers
Integers
Are the numbers… -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3… These are the natural numbers together with their negative and Zeros.
Intersection of sets
The set contains all the elements that are members of both set A and set B intersection is symbolized A Ç B. The word and is associated with the intersection.
Interval notation
Interval notation is a simplified form of writing intervals by using parenthesis and brackets Ʊshow whether the endpoints are included. The inequality x < 3 written in interval notation is (-∞ ,3) whereas the inequality x£ 3 written in interval notation is (-∞ ,3].
Invented Spelling
Invented Spelling
Young students write words the way the words sound. An example would be a first grade student spelling was as “wuz” and kitty as “kti”.
Irrational numbers
The set of numbers within rhe real numbers when expressed in decimal form will be nonterminating and nonrepresenting decimal numbers.
Example: {- √3, √2,π √5}
Isosceles triangle
An Isosceles triangle has two sides of equal length and two angles of equal degrees.
Key Signature
Key Signature
The sharp, flat, or natural signs placed at the beginning of musical piece that indicates tonality in a musical composition.
Kinetic energy
Kinetic energy
The energy of an object in motion.
Landform
Landforms
Features that make up the earth’s surface such as a plain, mountain, or valley.
A landform is a natural feature of the Earth’s surface. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement on the landscape or the study of same is known as topography. Typical landforms include hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins.
LEA
LEA
Language Experience Approach is a commonly used instructional method that integrates oral and written language skills.
Leading coefficient
Leading coefficient
The leading coefficient of a polynomial is the coefficient in front of the term with the greatest degree. In the polynomial (4x³ + 5x – 9), 4 is the leading coefficient.
Light energy
Light energy
The energy that occurs as a result of light.
Line of Symmetry
Line of Symmetry
A figure has a line of symmetry if it is possible to fold the figure over a line drawn on its interior in such a way that half of the figure folds exactly onto the other half.
Line
Line
An element of art which refers to the continues mark made on some surface by a moving point.
Literal comprehension
Literal comprehension
It refers to the understanding of information that is explicit stated in a written passage.
Locomotor skills
Locomotor skills
Movement such as walking, running, hopping, jumping, and so forth that move the body from one pace to another.
Logarithm
Logarithm
A logarithm is an exponent loga x is the power to which the base a most be raised to obtain x.
In mathematics, the logarithm of a number is the exponent to which another fixed value, the base, must be raised to produce that number. For example, the logarithm of 1000 to base 10 is 3, because 10 to the power 3 is 1000: 1000 = 10 × 10 × 10 = 103.
Manipulatives
Manipulatives(chips, Cusinaire, rods, dice, play, money, etc.)
Use of these manipulatives helps teachers move children from the concrete through the abstract stages of reasoning necessary for learning higher-level mathematical concepts.
