8th Grade Vocabulary (Quarter 4)

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Across
  1. 4. person who supported abolition, or the ending of slavery (SS)
  2. 6. informal language (LA)
  3. 8. the theorem used with right triangles(Math)
  4. 11. comparison using "like" or "as" (LA)
  5. 12. the perspective from which a story is told (LA)
  6. 13. 3-D shape with 2 circle bases and a curved surface (Math)
  7. 14. the people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849 (SS)
  8. 17. certain region of a chromosome that causes a specific protein to be made (Sci)
  9. 19. specific characteristic or feature of an organism (Sci)
  10. 21. physical structures that are passed from parents to offspring in egg and sperm cells (Sci)
  11. 22. comparison without using "like" or "as" (LA)
  12. 23. structure inside of cells where the chromosomes are contained (Sci)
  13. 24. person who moves from one country to another (SS)
  14. 25. reference to another work of literature, person, or event (LA)
  15. 30. the opposite of squaring a number(Math)
  16. 31. philosophy emphasizing that people should transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition (SS)
  17. 32. organized representation (model) of biological relationships (Sci)
Down
  1. 1. numbers that don't repeat or terminate (Math)
  2. 2. the belief that it was the United States' right and duty to spread across the North American continent (SS)
  3. 3. sides that create the right angle of a right triangle(Math)
  4. 5. the amount that fits inside a 3-D shape(Math)
  5. 7. story using made-up characters that could happen in real life (LA)
  6. 9. combination of alleles that an organism has (Sci)
  7. 10. different forms of genes which can cause different forms of proteins that lead to variation in a trait (Sci)
  8. 12. the most famous irrational number(Math)
  9. 15. numbers that can be written as a fraction(Math)
  10. 16. longest side on a right triangle (Math)
  11. 18. telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events (LA)
  12. 20. person’s or a group’s impact on future generations (SS)
  13. 26. any single celled or multi-celled life (Sci)
  14. 27. comparison of two different things that are similar in some way (LA)
  15. 28. to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices (SS)
  16. 29. distance halfway across a circle(Math)