Unit 5: Week 1 Vocabulary

Moving water can disturb sediment under the surface.

In the rock cycle, new rock is formed with recycled old rock.

Magma erupting to Earth’s surface causes an immediate impact.

Rocks are composed of minerals and other materials.

All rocks are solid and hard, but they come in an amazing variety of sizes, shapes, colors, and textures. They are all composed of mixtures of materials, usually (but not always) including substances called minerals.

Atoms are particles that constitute the building blocks of matter.

For a mineral to be called an ore, it must be present in one place in amounts, or deposits, large enough to make mining worthwhile.

Later, uplift of land and erosion resulted in the formations that exist today.

A couple of basic principles guide geologists in their work. One is called superposition. This is the idea that in a stack of rock layers, the higher strata tend to be younger than the lower ones.

Informational texts inform or explain information about the natural or social world and include textbooks, newspapers, and magazines.

Informational texts contain
•Facts
•Domain-specific vocabulary, or words related to a specific topic
•Text features, such as graphics, captions, and sidebars
•Titles, headings, and subheadings that show how information is organized

Informational texts contain
•Facts
•Domain -specific vocabulary, or words related to a specific topic
•Text features, such as graphics, captions, and sidebars
•Titles, headings, and subheadings that show how information is organized

Informational texts contain
•Facts
•Domain-specific vocabulary, or words related to a specific topic
•Text features, such as graphics, captions, and sidebars
•Titles, headings, and subheadings that show how information is organized

Informational texts contain
•Facts
•Domain-specific vocabulary, or words related to a specific topic
•Text features, such as graphics, captions, and sidebars
•Titles, headings, and subheadings that show how information is organized

Informational texts contain
•Facts
•Domain-specific vocabulary, or words related to a specific topic
•Text features, such as graphics, captions, and sidebars
•Titles, headings, and subheadings that show how information is organized

A comma is used after each item in the series except the last item.

However, sometimes an item in a list contains its own comma. To avoid confusion, these items are separated with a semicolon.

While reading informational text, readers make connections to what they know from reading other texts, from personal experiences, and from their understanding of the world.

Poetry is the arrangement of words in lines with rhythm, or a regularly repeated accent.

Narrative Poetry tells a story.

Lyric Poetry includes expressions of emotions, descriptions of nature, or both.

Epic Poetry involves a long narrative in an elevated style about the adventures of characters who are important to the history of a nation or race.

Poems have rhythm, or a pattern of stressed ( ' ) and unstressed ( ˘ ) syllables. Rhythm may be regular, following a specific pattern, or irregular. The poet can use rhythm to create a specific mood.

Many poems have rhyme, or words that have the same ending sound.

Quatrain has four lines with a similar rhythm.

Haiku has three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.

Blank Verse has lines of ten syllables.