Describe →

What is it like?

Explain →

How or why does it happen?

Analyse →

How are the factors connected?

Discuss →

What are the different sides or viewpoints?

Evaluate →

How important, effective, or successful is it?

Critically Evaluate →

How important or effective is it after considering different factors, evidence, and limitations?

Justify →

Why is my judgement correct? What evidence proves it?

Assess →

How important or significant is it?

Predict →

What is likely to happen, and why?

Compare →

What is similar and what is different?

Contrast →

How are they different?

Identify →

What is it? Name it.

Determine →

What can I work out from the evidence?

Examine →

What happens when I look at it closely?

Interpret →

What does the information tell me?

Integrate →

How do different pieces of information work together?

Synthesize →

How can I combine different ideas to form a bigger understanding?

Mitigate →

How can we reduce the negative effects?

Significance →

Why does it matter, and how important is it?

Implications →

What could happen as a result?

Evidence →

What facts or examples support my answer?

Judgement →

What is my final decision or conclusion?

Critical thinking →

What else should I consider before deciding?

Critical analysis →

How can I look deeper into the relationships, causes, effects, and limitations?

Argument →

What am I trying to prove?

Case study →

What real-world example can I use to support my answer?

Scale →

At what level is this happening — local, regional, national, or global?

Spatial pattern →

Where is it happening, and what pattern does it form?

Cause →

Why is it happening?

Consequence →

What happens because of it?

Factor →

What influences or contributes to it?

Relationship →

How does one thing affect or connect to another?

Pattern →

What arrangement or trend can I see?

Trend→

How is it changing over time?

Process →

What steps cause something to happen?