A good answer might be:

A conditional branch tests a condition then changes the PC if the condition is true (for example, the instruction beq label).

Branch Equal to Zero

The extended assembler implements several conditional branch instructions beyond the basic ones. For example:

beqz    rs,label          # branch to label if register rs == 0
                          # (pseudoinstruction)

The hardware does not have a machine instruction for this operation. It does, however, have a zero register and the beq instruction (branch equal).

QUESTION 2:

Fill in the blanks so the branch is taken if $rs is zero.

______    rs,________,label          # branch to label if register rs == 0