Lab Activities
Lab Activity 24: Practice with Definition
 
 
Objective: To identify general categories and use details to develop definitions.

Step 3: Answer the questions below.


     

1. Match the term with the general category. 

Using the pulldown boxes, match each item on the left to the corresponding item at right.

A. A person
B. An idea
C. A place
D. An object
E. An emotion


     

2. Match the term with the definition. 

Using the pulldown boxes, match each item on the left to the corresponding item at right.

A. A person who never leaves home without a whoopee cushion and some plastic vomit.
B. A person who thinks that everything will turn out okay even though a sink hole just swallowed up her house and entire front yard.
C. A person who believes that everyone exists only to please him.
D. A person who is too perfectly beautiful to be a human man.
E. A person who wears hats made of aluminum foil so that space creatures cannot read his thoughts.


     

3. Match the term with the definition. 

Using the pulldown boxes, match each item on the left to the corresponding item at right.

A. A place where people try to be hip while ignoring inner-city problems.
B. A place where people go and pay large sums of money to be covered in mud and beaten by strangers.
C. A place that sounds trendy but serves everyday food at high prices.
D. A place where anything seems possible because nothing is real.
E. A place people from the city visit to fulfill fantasies about being cowhands.


     

4. Match the term with the definition. 

Using the pulldown boxes, match each item on the left to the corresponding item at right.

A. An emotion you feel when the only words that come to mind are "if only."
B. An emotion you feel when you're driving a little over the speed limit, and you see a red light flashing in your rearview mirror.
C. An emotion you feel when that certain person enters the room and you never want to be apart again.
D. An emotion you feel when the lights go out and you're sure there are big, hairy monsters in your closet.
E. An emotion you feel when your child takes her first step or you win a lifetime supply of chocolate.


     

5. Match the term with the definition. 

Using the pulldown boxes, match each item on the left to the corresponding item at right.

A. An idea that explains why every member of a community has a responsibility to be a good citizen of that community.
B. An object—also known as a dented Ford Focus—that my brother believes draws beautiful women to him.
C. An object that is so old that people think it is worth buying at a high price.
D. An object that helps me do well on tests and win bets with friends.
E. An idea that explains why it is only fair that people who cheat on tests should be punished.







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