Week 3 Vocab - August 21-25

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Across
  1. 1. less than half of the moon is lit
  2. 3. the middle point of a line segment. It is equidistant from both benchmarks
  3. 5. describe a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Tell us how, how often, when, and where.
  4. 8. As the surface of the moon becomes more lighted each day on the way to full, it's “waxing.” “To wax” means to increase in size gradually
  5. 9. the message we learn from the story; something we can apply to real life.
  6. 11. Making _________________: reading comprehension strategy that involves linking what is being read (the text) to what is already known
  7. 12. a number close to an exact value. An estimate indicates about how much.
Down
  1. 2. to change the value of a number to one that is easier to work with. To find the nearest value of a number based on a given place value.
  2. 4. ___________ Noun: a noun that shows ownership, usually identified by 's
  3. 6. more than half of the moon is lit
  4. 7. numbers used which other numbers can be estimated and compared. Benchmark numbers are usually multiples of 10 or 100.
  5. 10. As the surface of the moon has a gradual decrease of the sunlit part of the Moon after the Full Moon.