Grade 9 Creative Arts and Sports Comprehensive Study Guide

Grand Stave

A musical notation system consisting of two parallel staves (Treble/G clef and Bass/F clef) connected on the left margin by a vertical line and a brace.

Tesserae

The small individual cut pieces of paper, glass, stone, tile, or banana fiber used to create a mosaic artwork.

Interstices

The deliberately un-pasted narrow spaces left between adjacent tesserae in a mosaic composition.

Analogous Colors

Colors that lie directly adjacent to one another on a standard $12$-part color wheel and share a common base color.

Doping

The illegal practice where athletes use prohibited substances or methods to unethically enhance their physical performance in sports.

Power

The capacity of skeletal muscles to exert maximum strength rapidly using dynamic explosive movements.

Reaction Time

The time duration required by an individual to initiate a physical response following an external sensory signal.

Spin/Spiral Pass

A rugby pass where horizontal spiral rotation is imparted to the ball to increase speed, distance, and flight accuracy.

Drop Kick

A rugby kick executed by releasing the ball from the hands and striking it immediately as it bounces off the ground.

F Major Scale

A major scale built using the step sequence $T-T-S-T-T-T-S$, containing one flat note ($\text{B}\flat$).