GACE Elementary Education Exam
Questions and Detailed Answers
What is a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger
body of water? - ✔✔lagoon
What is an artificial waterway for navigation or for draining or irrigating land? -
✔✔canal
What is having or relating to a folded rock structure in which the sides dip
toward a common line or plane? - ✔✔synclinal
What is to bend the head or body forward? - ✔✔incline
What is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area? -
✔✔geologic depression
What is a conclusion or opinion that is formed because of known facts or
evidence? - ✔✔inference
What is the scientific and objective study of animal behavior especially under
natural conditions? - ✔✔ethology
What is a branch of medical science concerned with the causes and origins of
diseases? - ✔✔Etiology
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, What is the treatment or prevention of disease by taking measures to increase
immune system functioning? - ✔✔immunotherapy
What is a lean slender body build with slight muscular development (linear
shaped)? - ✔✔ectomorph
What is having a heavy rounded body build often with a marked tendency to
become fat (pear-or apple-shaped)? - ✔✔endomorph
A reading strategy that entails the reader setting goals, then overviewing and
reading selectively to meet those goals, is known as what? - ✔✔setting a
purpose
At what age would you expect a typical child to attempt to write in cursive? -
✔✔8 years
A teaching method that requires that students take weekly vocabulary quizzes is
referred to as what? - ✔✔vocabulary building
The unwritten literature of a culture, such as its songs and proverbs, is known as
what? - ✔✔folklore
Spelling, handwriting, punctuation, and capitalization are what kind of language
arts tools? - ✔✔writing
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Questions and Detailed Answers
What is a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger
body of water? - ✔✔lagoon
What is an artificial waterway for navigation or for draining or irrigating land? -
✔✔canal
What is having or relating to a folded rock structure in which the sides dip
toward a common line or plane? - ✔✔synclinal
What is to bend the head or body forward? - ✔✔incline
What is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area? -
✔✔geologic depression
What is a conclusion or opinion that is formed because of known facts or
evidence? - ✔✔inference
What is the scientific and objective study of animal behavior especially under
natural conditions? - ✔✔ethology
What is a branch of medical science concerned with the causes and origins of
diseases? - ✔✔Etiology
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, What is the treatment or prevention of disease by taking measures to increase
immune system functioning? - ✔✔immunotherapy
What is a lean slender body build with slight muscular development (linear
shaped)? - ✔✔ectomorph
What is having a heavy rounded body build often with a marked tendency to
become fat (pear-or apple-shaped)? - ✔✔endomorph
A reading strategy that entails the reader setting goals, then overviewing and
reading selectively to meet those goals, is known as what? - ✔✔setting a
purpose
At what age would you expect a typical child to attempt to write in cursive? -
✔✔8 years
A teaching method that requires that students take weekly vocabulary quizzes is
referred to as what? - ✔✔vocabulary building
The unwritten literature of a culture, such as its songs and proverbs, is known as
what? - ✔✔folklore
Spelling, handwriting, punctuation, and capitalization are what kind of language
arts tools? - ✔✔writing
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