Third Grade

TCAP Preparation
Packet
This packet contains terms your child has come in contact
with throughout this school year.
Please continue reviewing these terms with your child as we
prepare for testing.

TCAP Dates- April 28-May1, 2015

****REMEMBER****
Be at school every day
Be on time
Eat a good breakfast
Get Plenty of rest

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Math Terms to know:

Sum- to add numbers
Difference- to subtract numbers
Product- to multiply numbers
area- length x width (the number of square units covering a region)
commutative property- change the order of the addends but the sum stays the same
(7x2= 14 or 2x7=14)
congruent figures- figures that have the same shape and size
denominator-the number below the bar in a fraction
estimate- the answer that is close to the exact answer
even numbers- 0,2,4,6,8
expanded form- writing a number as the sum of the values of its digits (385= 300 + 80 +
5)
hour- 60 minutes
intersecting lines- lines that meet or cross each other
line of symmetry- a line on which a figure can be folded so that both sides match
line segment- a straight path that has two endpoints
numerator- the number above the bar in a fraction
perimeter- distance around an object (add the length of all the sides)
angles and triangles (acute, right, obtuse) and (equilateral, scalene, isosceles)

Science
Anemometer: A tool used to measure wind speed
Barometer: A tool used to measure air pressure
Endangered:
when there are only a few members of a living species left.
Competition: the struggle among living things for the same resources
Energy: the power a living thing needs to survive; food
Extinct: when there are no members of a species left alive
Food Chain: shows the flow of energy in an environment
Force: a push or a pull
Heredity: the passing of traits from parents to young
Mixture: different kinds of matter mixed together
Natural Objects: objects that are made in nature
Pitch: how high or low a sound is
Rain Gauge: a tool used to measure the amount of precipitation
Solution: when one or more kinds of matter are mixed evenly
Threatened: an organism that may become rare in the near future
Thriving: Organisms that are not in danger of dying out
Man-made objects: objects that humans make
Weather Vane: a tool used to point out wind direction

Social Studies

Agriculture to farm; farming

Barter to exchange one good or service for another good or service
Border an official line that shows where a political area begins or ends
Cardinal Direction - the four main directions on a compass rose (North, South, East,
and West)
Citizenship the way a person acts as a member of a community
Conflict a disagreement
Consumer someone who buys the goods or services sold by a producer
Culture the way of life of a group of people
Economy the way people make, buy, sell, and use things
Export - to sell goods or services to people in another country
Geographic Features - the landforms and bodies of water that are in a region
Geography - the study of the people and places on Earth.
Global - having to do with the entire world
Hemisphere one half of Earths surface
Imports - to buy goods or services from sellers in other countries
Natural Resource anything in nature that people use
Needs the things that people must have in order to live
Physical Map - a map that shows natural features such as mountains or rivers
Population the number of people who live in an area
Producer someone who makes and sells goods

Reading Key Terms

Cause tells why something happened

Effect is what happened
Conclusion is a decision you reach after thinking about facts and details you read
Fact tells something that can be proven true or false
Opinion tells someones ideas or feelings
Topic is what a piece of writing is about
Main idea the most important idea about the topic; it answers the question, What
is this story about?
Supporting sentence gives small pieces of information or details about the main
idea
Summary the main events in a story
Fairy tale a fictional story containing magic, fairies, giants, witches, etc.
Fable a story that teaches a lesson, they often have animal characters that talk and
act like people
Folk tale a story that is passed down orally from generation to generation
Myth a story that explains why something in nature happens
Setting - where and when a story takes place
Character is a person or animal who takes part in the events of a story
Plot what happens at the beginning, middle, and end of a story

Reading-Key terms continued...

Theme the big idea or lesson from a story
Poem a piece of writing with short lines, with a noticeable rhythm and some words
that rhyme
Stanza one of the groups of lines into which a poem is divided
Rhyme words that end in the same sound, such as beet and feet

English TCAP Words to Know

Synonym- words that have the same or similar meanings

Antonym- words that have opposite meanings
Declarative-sentence that makes a statement
Interrogative- sentence that asks a question
Exclamatory- sentence that shows expression
Imperative- sentence that gives a command
Predicate- part of the sentence that tells what the subject is or is doing (contains the
verb)
Subject- part of the sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about
Verb (past, present, future tense as well as irregular)
Contraction- two words put together after removing one or two letters of one word
and replacing them with an apostrophe (can not- cant)
Article- a, an, the
Adjective- words that describe a noun
Adverb- words that tell more about the verb (sometimes ends in ly)
Pronoun- words that replace nouns (example: he, she, it)
Proper Noun- nouns that name a specific person, place or thing (always capitalized)
Linking Verb- verbs that do not show action, and connect the subject to the
predicate. (example: is, was, are)
Noun ( singular, proper, and possessive)