Name: ____________________
Date: _________ Period: _____
Vocabulary Note-Taking Chart
Term
Synonym/Explanation
Reading: Pangaea
Example/Image/Showing Sentence
To cause,
v.
To make something
______________
The power outage caused my alarm clock to
turn off; the effect was that I
was
_______ to school.
Conclusive,
adj.
A final __________
putting an end to doubt.
Related to conclusion.
Once the results were back from the lab,
the detective __________ the evidence
was conclusive that the
suspect had committed
the crime.
Formulation,
n
The ___________ of
working out an idea and
then stating it clearly.
The formulation of her theory
on how wolves hunt together
happened as she
_______________a pack of
wolves in Alaska.
Evidence,
n.
Information and facts
that help __________
something or make you
believe something is true.
Theory, n.
An idea or statement
that __________ the
facts about how or why
something happened
Without enough evidence the
detective could _______
arrest the suspect.
While some ideas in science
maybe only hypotheses, I
know if I drop a pen it will fall
to the floor because of the
theory of ___________
Word Form Chart
Noun
Adjective
Verb
Adverb
To cause
conclusive
formulation
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/index.html for more information about continental drift and plate tectonics.