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MTTC Elementary Education Study Guide 18th Amendment Correct Answers 1919, Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages (Prohibition) 6 basic principles of the constitution Correct Answers 1. Popular Sovereignty
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Checks and Balances
- Judicial Review
- Federalism A good way to test silent reading fluency Correct Answers Giving a three-minute Test of Silent Contextual Reading Fluency four times a year. The student is presented with text in which spaces between words and all punctuation have been removed. The student must divide one word from another with slash marks. The more words a student accurately separates, the higher her silent reading fluency score Absolute Monarchy Correct Answers A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power Accuracy Correct Answers A measure of how close something is to the true value Afferent neurons Correct Answers Sensory neurons (Receive impulses)
Allegory Correct Answers A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. An understanding of the meanings of prefixes is important for... Correct Answers Reading comprehension Anaphase Correct Answers 3rd stage of mitosis- Half of the chromosomes go one way, half of them go the other. Andrew Jackson's presidency Correct Answers The beginning of the modern political party system and the start of the Democratic party. Introduced universal white male suffrage. Angiosperms Correct Answers Flowering plants Applied science definition Correct Answers Created for a specific, practical goal or application and designed to solve a problem. Area of a circle Correct Answers A=πr² Arthropods Correct Answers A group of organisms that have an exoskeleton, molt, have jointed kegs, and go through metamorphosis. Ex: grasshoppers, crustaceans, spiders Articles of the Confederation weakness Correct Answers Designed to protect states' rights over the federal government, but had no centralized government, and had no power or
Cellulose Correct Answers A type of carbohydrate. Glucose chains that make up plants. One of the most common organic materials. Chloroplast Correct Answers An organelle found in plant and algae cells where photosynthesis occurs. What makes plants green. Photosynthesis occurs here, in the stroma, kind of like the mitochondria of the plant kingdom. Chromatin Correct Answers Clusters of DNA, RNA, and proteins in the nucleus of a cell Circumference of a circle Correct Answers 2πr Classical Republic Correct Answers Small groups of elected officials represent the interests of the electorate/people. Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) Correct Answers Teaches students reading comprehension while working in small groups Collaborative strategic reading requires... Correct Answers Cooperative learning and reading comprehension Commutative Property Correct Answers a+b=b+a Composite number Correct Answers Any number that isn't a prime number
Compounds Correct Answers 2 or more elements chemically combined Compromise of 1850 Correct Answers Allowed those who lived in the Mexican cession to decide whether to be free or slave territory Conifers Correct Answers Trees that thrive in northern latitudes and have cones. Needles take in the sun year-round, and a chemical named xylem makes them strong. Consonant Blend Correct Answers When two consonants combine. Ex: Sl, Tr, Fl Consonant Digraph Correct Answers Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound (ex: ch, sh, etc.) Constants Correct Answers Factors in experiments that stay the same Control Correct Answers A normal, unchanged situation for comparison Cycads Correct Answers Sturdy plants with big, waxy fronds that make them look like ferns or palms. They can survive in harsh conditions as long as it's warm. The female plant produces fruit. Dependent variables Correct Answers Changes that result from the experiment. The "results"
Eukaryotic Cells Correct Answers Contain a nucleus and other organelles that are bound by membranes. Events leading up to the American Revolution Correct Answers Sons of Liberty, Boston Massacre, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Tea Party Examples of microbes Correct Answers Mold, yeast, protozoa, algae Fallacy of inconsistency Correct Answers Statement that contradicts itself or defeats itself fallacy of insufficiency Correct Answers statement is made with insufficient evidence to support it Fallacy of irrelevance Correct Answers Statement is made for an irrelevant reason Fats Correct Answers A type of lipid, used as an energy reserve Federalist Papers were written by? Correct Answers John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton Feudalism Correct Answers A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
First landing on Roanoke Island Correct Answers 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh first law of thermodynamics Correct Answers Conservation of energy. Energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed. First state to ratify the Constitution Correct Answers Delaware Folded mountains Correct Answers When continental plates collide, buckle, and fold. (Ex: Appalachian, Himalayas, Alps) Fringing reef Correct Answers A reef attached to the shore of a continent or island. Fugitive Law of 1850 Correct Answers Allowed slave owners to enter into free states to retrieve their escaped slaves Geomorphology Correct Answers The study of landforms Gilded Age Correct Answers 1870s-1890, named because of the enormous wealth of a few families. (Carnegies, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, etc) Gregor Mendel Correct Answers Father of genetics, garden peas, 3 laws of hereditary. Gymnosperms Correct Answers A plant that produces seeds that are exposed rather than seeds enclosed in fruits. They have no flowers, so they are at an evolutionary disadvantage
Identity Property Correct Answers a+0=a or a*1=a Independent variables Correct Answers Things that are changed in an experiment. The "stimuli" Indian Reversal Act of 1830 Correct Answers Included the Trail of Tears, the removal of Cherokees from Georgia to Oklahoma Information Literacy Correct Answers the ability to figure out the type of information you need, find that information, evaluate it, and properly use it Interger Correct Answers Any positive or negative number, including 0. Doesn't include fractions, decimals, or mixed numbers Interphase Correct Answers In-between stage of mitosis- A cells natural state. Irrational number Correct Answers Can't be written as fractions or decimals. An infinite number that has no recurring pattern. Ex: pi Jefferson Davis Correct Answers President of the Confederate States of America John Bunyan Correct Answers Author of Pilgrim's Progress, a religious allegory
Jovian Planets Correct Answers Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Large in size and gaseous. Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 Correct Answers Allowed lands from the Louisiana Purchase to use popular sovereignty about slavery, repealed the Missouri Compromise Liberal Democracy Correct Answers A political system that promotes participation, competition, and liberty and emphasizes individual freedom and civil rights. Life processes that all living things have in common Correct Answers Nutrition, transport, respiration, regulation, reproduction and growth, locomotion limerick Correct Answers A five line poem in which lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. Lipids Correct Answers Fats and oils made of Carbon. Louisiana Purchase Correct Answers 1803, gain vital New Orleans port, got rid of potential French interference, done by Thomas Jefferson. Lewis and Clark were sent to map this territory. Manifest Destiny Correct Answers A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. A saying by western-moving settlers.
America. In return, the U.S promised not to meddle in European affairs Multiplicative Property Correct Answers When any number is multiplied by 1, the product is the number Nathanial Hawthorne Correct Answers Author of "The Scarlet Letter" NATO (North American Treaty Organization) formed Correct Answers 1949. Made to connect the U.S. to Western Europe New Constitution Correct Answers 1787. Changed it to 3 branches of government and a bimercal legislature. Nucleic Acids Correct Answers Large molecules (polymers) composed of a lot of simpler molecules (nucleotides). Each has a sugar containing 5 carbon (pentose), a phosphorous compound, and a nitrogen compound. Carry DNA and RNA. Nullification Correct Answers A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional Oceanic mountains Correct Answers Volcanic mountains, examples can be found in Japan and the Philippenes Oligarchy Correct Answers A government ruled by a few powerful, generally self-appointed people Organelles Correct Answers Little organs, a group of molecules that help a cell survive
Organisms that interfere with cell activity Correct Answers Viruses, parasites, bacteria, and fungi Original 13 Colonies Correct Answers Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia. Phospholipids Correct Answers A type of lipid, for cell membranes Physical map Correct Answers A map that shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. Placental mammals Correct Answers Mammals that carry their young in the uterus inside a tissue (placenta) that enables nutrients, gases, and wastes to be exchanged between the mother and the embryo. The dominant form in mammals. Political Map Correct Answers Shows cities, states, and countries. Pragmatics Correct Answers The social use of language to communicate and meet one's needs. Precision Correct Answers a measure of how close a series of measurements are to one another Prime number Correct Answers A whole number that has exactly two factors, 1 and itself.
Requirements to be a planet Correct Answers 1. Orbits around a star and isn't a star or moon itself. 2. Spherical shape due to gravity. 3. "Cleared" the space of orbit (which pluto does not meet) Robber Barons Correct Answers Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying exploiting their employees. They controlled the market and had ruthless business practices. Robert E. Lee Correct Answers Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force Round Robin Correct Answers Where students read in a circle. This generally does not help with building reading confidence, though. Salem Witch Trials Correct Answers 1629. It's always the puritans. Scientific Law Correct Answers A generally accepted conclusion about a body of observations to which no exceptions have been found. It explains, but doesn't describe. second law of thermodynamics Correct Answers Entropy of an isolated system can only increase. Heat isn't transferred from a lower temperature to a higher temperature without more work. Sestina Correct Answers a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the
line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1902) Correct Answers Created to break-up and prevent monopolies Skimming Correct Answers rapid, superficial reading of material to determine central ideas and main elements Solutions Correct Answers Homogeneous mixtures formed by 2+ substances that have become 1. Sonnet Correct Answers a 14 line poem. Three main types of sonnets: Shakespearean, Spenserian, and Petrachan. Squamata Correct Answers Lizards and snakes Starches Correct Answers A type of carbohydrate. Long chains of glucose that act as reserve substances. Animals retain glucose in cells as glucosen. Stem and leaf chart Correct Answers Generally, having the tens digit on the left/stem side of the chart, and having the ones digits on the right/leaf side of the chart Steps of the Scientific Method Correct Answers Observation, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, Modification/Replication Steps to figure out a word problem Correct Answers Understand what it's asking. Find the information you need to solve the problem and separate it. Make a plan to solve the
Terrestrial planets Correct Answers Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. Have a rocky, compact surface like Earth. The Central Nervous System includes... Correct Answers The brain and spinal chord The Peripheral Nervous System includes... Correct Answers Neurons/sensory nerves Theory Correct Answers A scientifically proven, general principle offered to explain phenomena. Derived from a hypothesis Things to increase number sense Correct Answers Frequently ask students to do mental math instead of using a calculator, discuss as a class, let students verbally explain their reasoning, use modeling, have problems with more than 1 answer. Things to introduce in kindergarden before numbers Correct Answers Position (top, middle, bottom, etc), visual attributes (color, shape, etc), sorting, graphing, patterns, measurements Third law of thermodynamics Correct Answers No system can reach absolute zero Thomas Payne wrote what book? Correct Answers Common Sense. Talked about American independence Topographical map Correct Answers A type of map characterized by large-scale detail and contour lines representing elevation changes.
Topological Map Correct Answers simplified, only few pieces of information given ex: map for subway Totalitarianism Correct Answers A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) Transport holes Correct Answers proteins that help certain molecules and ions move in and out of the cell Treaty of Ghent Correct Answers 1814, treaty that ended the war of 1812. Treaty of Saginaw Correct Answers Indians cede 6 mill. acres of land in central Michigan to US, 1819 Trigraph Correct Answers Three letters that come together to make one sound. Ex: air, ear. Truman Doctrine (1947) Correct Answers President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey Ulysses S. Grant Correct Answers An American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
