8th Grade Academic Vocabulary Test Group 8

Target Language or Knowledge:

mercantilism mnemonic device national security naturalized citizen negative correlation negative exponent neutrality Newton's Laws nitrogen cycle non-proportional linear relationship

an economic theory which states that a nation's wealth is based on the amount of gold and silver bullion in its treasury solving a dispute happily dependable in achievement and accuracy a memory aid, such as an abbreviation, rhyme, or mental image, that helps to remember something solving a dispute happily dependable in achievement and accuracy solving a dispute happily the state of being a nonparticipant in war; non-alliance with either side in a dispute a person of foreign birth who is granted full citizenship by establishing residency, taking a test, and pledging an oath a person of foreign birth who is granted full citizenship by establishing residency, taking a test, and pledging an oath the state of being a nonparticipant in war; non-alliance with either side in a dispute a person who has been freed from slavery two data sets if one set of data values increases while the other decreases solving a dispute happily the state of being a nonparticipant in war; non-alliance with either side in a dispute a negative symbol written above and to the right of a mathematical expression to indicate the operation of rising to a negative power solving a dispute happily the state of being a nonparticipant in war; non-alliance with either side in a dispute the state of being a nonparticipant in war; non-alliance with either side in a dispute solving a dispute happily a person of foreign birth who is granted full citizenship by establishing residency, taking a test, and pledging an oath explain, predict, and quantify the movement of objects on Earth and in space the processes in which nitrogen moves and is stored in the ecosystem a graphic organizer used to predict the results of a genetic cross the processes in which nitrogen moves and is stored in the ecosystem a graphic organizer used to predict the results of a genetic cross explain, predict, and quantify the movement of objects on Earth and in space occurs when the data is in the form of y=mx + b, and where the graph yields a linear line that does not go through the origin a memory aid, such as an abbreviation, rhyme, or mental image, that helps to remember something solving a dispute happily

Write sentences using words from Group # 8: