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WorksheetsFRQ Power Words
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What does the word identify mean?
To give a picture of something in words.
Tell how to do something.
Name, list, and give an example.
To give a meaning for a word or phrase.
What does the word explain mean?
Break something into parts.
To give a meaning for a word or phrase.
To state characteristics of something.
Tell how to do, give the meaning of, or why, give reasons for. Also phrased as "give one reason".
Fill in the blank with the correct option. "To _________ a question or hypothesis."
Pose/Propose
Summarize
Explain
Describe
What does it mean to describe something?
To state a result of a consequence that can be positive or negative.
To give a picture or characteristics of something in words.
Tell how to do, give the meaning of, or why, give reasons for. Also phrased as "give one reason".
Name, list, and give an example
If I compare two things, what am I doing?
Pointing out ONLY similarities between them.
Pointing out ONLY the differences between them.
Pointing out similarities between them, unless used without contrast, then it can mean both similarities and differences.
If I contrast two things, what am I doing?
Pointing out ONLY similarities between them,
Pointing out ONLY the differences between them.
To define something means:
To give a meaning for a word or phrase.
To name, list, and give an example.
To give a picture or characteristics of something in words.
To break it into parts, tell about the parts.
"Tell the main idea; tell the beginning, middle, and end" is what power word:
Analyze
Synthesize
Summarize
Jazzercise
"A result or a consequence that can be positive or negative" is what power word:
Affect
Effect
Defect
Claim
"To break something into parts, tell about the parts" is what power word:
Synthesize
Analyze
Summarize
Support
To support an idea means:
Judge it, tell the good and the bad.
To show the differences between two or more things.
Prove to be a good reason for something.
Prove your answer with details or data.
To evaluate an idea means:
Judge it, tell the good and the bad.
To show the differences between two or more things.
Prove to be a good reason for something.
Prove your answer with details or data.
To justify an idea means:
Judge it, tell the good and the bad.
To show the differences between two or more things.
Prove to be a good reason for something, to defend a claim.
Prove your answer with details or data.
To "state that something is true, usually without providing evidence or proof" is what power word:
Justify
Claim
Support
Evaluate
What is another word for "to distinguish"
Justify
Explain
Differentiate
Describe
"To estimate what will happen in the future" is what power word:
Explain
Predict
Justify
Claim
What is inquiry?
To examine, analyze, explore, investigate, think, ask questions.
To give a meaning for a word or phrase.
To give a picture or characteristics of something in words.
To tell how to do, give the meaning of, or why, give reasons for.
Which of these is "explain how"
Requires analysis of a relationship, process, pattern, position, situation, or outcome.
Requires analysis of motivations or reasons for the relationship, process, pattern, position, situation or outcome.
Which of these is "explain why"
Requires analysis of a relationship, process, pattern, position, situation, or outcome.
Requires analysis of motivations or reasons for the relationship, process, pattern, position, situation or outcome.
