ABCTE Elementary Education Terms questions with answers graded A+

ABCTE Elementary Education TermsAcceleration - correct answer A change in velocity Acute - correct answer An angle measuring less than 90 degrees Affix - correct answer A linguistic set of letters added to a word to affect its meaning. For example, the word decompression has two—the prefix de- (meaning to separate, to stop, to contradict, etc.) and the suffix -ion (meaning that the word refers to a condition or process). Alfred Russell Wallace - correct answer British naturalist who crafted his theory of evolution independently but concurrently with Charles Darwin. Allies - correct answer This term commonly refers to the US, Russian, Great Britain, and numerous other countries who opposed the Axis powers during World War II Alphabetic principle - correct answer The idea that letters systematically represent spoken sounds Ammonification - correct answer The production of ammonia when decomposition of organic matter occurs. Analytic Phonics - correct answer Phonics instruction that uses known words to teach phonemes and their attendant graphemes Anion - correct answer Atom or group of atoms with a negative electrical charge Apartheid - correct answer means "separateness" in Afrikaans, and refers to the systematic division of black and white South Africans beginning in 1948.