5 Content Vocabulary

Week 3

prime number

• Math

• A number that has exactly two factors: 1 and itself (the number)

• 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and13 are all prime numbers because they have only two factors.

exclamatory sentence

• English

• A sentence that expresses strong feelings by making an exclamation. An exclamatory sentence ends in an exclamation mark. (!)

• Sentence:– I can’t believe it! Reading and writing actually

paid off!

civilization

• Social Studies

• A complex society with cities, government and a writing system

• The Stone Age was not a civilization because they had no cities, government or writing system.

hypothesis

• Science

• scientific explanation that you think may be true and that can be tested

• An experiment is designed to test a hypothesis.

plot

• Reading• Events in a story

– Exposition (beginning)– Rising action– Climax– Falling action– resolution

• Sentence:– The plot in a story tells the events that include rising

action, climax, falling action, and resolution.