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Primary functions of government correct answer: 1) maintain order 2) settle conflicts 3) protect the community America's first national government was based on... correct answer: The Articles of Confederation Article 1 correct answer: The legislative branch and vests power to legislate in the Congress of the United States. Article 2 correct answer: The executive powers of the President and its branch of government enforces the laws of the land. Article 3 correct answer: The j...

A checklist would likely be more useful and appropriate for achieving which of the following assessment goals in an elementary classroom? correct answer: Monitoring students' use of various reading skills and strategies as they read orally When constructing an end-of-unit test for students in an elementary classroom, it is most important for the teacher to ensure that the test questions correct answer: are aligned with the unit's defined instructional objectives During a 6 week math un...

Metacognition correct answer: awareness and understanding of ones own thought process Criterion-Referenced Test correct answer: Individual's performance is measured against mastery of curriculum criteria rather than other students (Often tests/quizzes are made by the teacher) Norm-Referenced Test correct answer: report whether test takers performed better or worse than an average student Constructivism (Piaget) correct answer: Students are actively involved in the process of meanin...

Nation- State correct answer: combines the idea of the nation as a cultural or ethnic entity with the idea of the state as a political and geographical entity. It is this geographical coincidence of state and nation that distinguishes nation-states from other types of states that preceded it. Understanding what constitutes a nation-state is thus critical to the study of world history since the early modern era, when these governmental units first emerged. Periodization correct answer: enabl...

Aesthethic reading correct answer: Reading for pleasure Affix correct answer: A syllable added to the beginning (prefix) or the end (suffix) of a word to change the words meaning. Example il- in illiterate and -al in national Alphabetic principal correct answer: The understanding that words are made up of letters and letters represent sounds. If a child understands letter sound association, they are on the way to reading and writing words. Antonyms correct answer: Words with opposit...

spelling conventions correct answer: area of study that involves mechanics, usage, and sentence formation mechanics correct answer: spelling, punctuation, capitalization word analysis correct answer: breaking down of words into morphemes and word units to discover meaning morphemes correct answer: smallest unit of meaning phonics correct answer: relationship between a letter and sound measure of text's complexity correct answer: qualitative, quantitative, and reader & task ...

In the following experiment, what is the independent variable? Fill each of four beakers with 250 mL of water. Maintain each beaker at a different temperature (100 C., 200 C., 400 C., 800 C.). Place e 5-gram sugar cube into each beaker and stir. Record the amount of time for each of the sugar cubes to dissolve completely. correct answer: The temperature of the water. The independent variable is the one that you have control over For which of the following experimental data would a line graph...

Convergent boundaries correct answer: When 2 plates collide, one usually goes beneath and one comes up creating mountains Transform boundaries correct answer: Plates move side to side Divergent boundaries correct answer: When 2 plates move apart. Lava can rise up. P waves correct answer: Up and down waves in an earthquake S waves correct answer: Earthquake waves side to side shaking L wave correct answer: L waves combine side to side and up and down shaking Epicenter corr...

legislative branch correct answer: made up of the two houses of Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives. The most important duty of the legislative branch is to make laws. executive branch correct answer: vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. judicial branch correct answer: the power to interpret laws and settle disputes authoritarian governments correct answer: a form of government cha...

Natural Numbers correct answer: N = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, . . . } Whole natural numbers together with zero. correct answer: W = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, . . . } Every whole number has a unique opposite or negative whose sum with it is 0. For example, correct answer: 2 + (-2) = 0 The set of integers consists of the whole numbers and their opposites. correct answer: Z = {. . ., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . } Every nonzero integer has a unique reciprocal whose product with it is one. For...