8th Grade Core Academic Words Vocabulary Test - Week Two

Target Language or Knowledge:

central government chemical equation naturalized citizen climatic change coherence combinations composite figure compromise confederation constant chemical formula

the area of government that is concerned with national issues, such as taxation and defense symbolic method of describing the events that happen in a chemical reaction something that remains unchanged throughout a scientific investigation symbolic method of describing the events that happen in a chemical reaction something that remains unchanged throughout a scientific investigation one or more sets of numbers on a number line or coordinate/grid paper a person of foreign birth who is granted full citizenship by establishing residency, taking a test, and pledging an oath an antislavery campaigner in the 18th and 19th centuries something that remains unchanged throughout a scientific investigation changes in the average weather of a specific location over a long period of time something that remains unchanged throughout a scientific investigation a measure of the amount of mass compared to the amount of volume of an object the way in which sentences or thoughts in a text are linked together - by meaning, sound, words, or grammar - to assist the reader in understanding the meaning of the text a verbal or written argument; a regulated discussion of a problem of two opposing sides a figure of speech, reference or representation to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art an arrangement of items or events in which order does not matter a transformation in which a figure in enlarged or reduced a two-dimensional figure that is the combination of two or more simpler figures a two-dimensional figure that is the combination of two or more simpler figures symbolic method of describing the events that happen in a chemical reaction an arrangement of items or events in which order does not matter a settlement of a dispute in which two or more sides agree to accept less than they originally wanted a statement of official government policy; something that is taught a principle that is offered for acceptance a group of states that are allied together to form a political unit in which they keep most of their independence, but act together for purposes such as defense a statement of official government policy; something that is taught an arrangement of items or events in which order does not matter something that remains unchanged throughout a scientific investigation an arrangement of items or events in which order does not matter clear and observable evidence symbolic method of describing the number and arrangement of atoms in a molecule the solid liquid or gas that a wave moves through something that remains unchanged throughout a scientific investigation