Vocabulary
Story Skills
Fact or Opinion
Story Sequence
Park Trivia
100
This word is a synonym for "save".
What is to "preserve"?
100
This clue lets you know that the story takes place in recent times.
What is that the narrator traveled to get to California by airplane?
100
I knew we were in for an exciting vacation.
What is an opinion?
100
The author's plane first landed here, not far from Yosemite.
What is San Francisco?
100
This Scottish naturalist was one of the first people to visit Yosemite.
Who was John Muir?
200
A person who studies living things can be this.
What is a "naturalist"?
200
The author used this text feature to show that facts in the story are grouped by different topics.
What are headings (subheads)?
200
One of the prettiest falls is Bridalveil Fall.
What is an opinion?
200
Once inside the Archer Pass, it is the first place in the park that the author visited.
What is Badger Pass?
200
This president signed the Yosemite Grant deeding the land to California.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
Animals are sometimes grouped by their "type" or...
What are "species"?
300
Travel to the Badger Pass in 1855 was different because tourists traveled through it by this.
What is horseback?
300
"I could see El Capitan and Half Dome."
What is a fact?
300
The author made her campground here.
What is Yosemite Valley?
300
The Sierra Miwok Indians living in Yosemite Valley called it "Ahwahnee", which means this..
What is "Place of the Gaping Mouth"?
400
A huge sheet of ice is also called this.
What is a "glacier"?
400
This is the main idea of the selection.
What is that Yosemite is a popular place to visit?
400
The ranger told us that this is a good place to see peregrine falcons in flight.
What is an opinion?
400
On her way to Glacier Point, the author saw this animal wildlife.
What is a black bear and her two cubs
400
It is the reason that the trees at Tioga Pass stay small.
What is because the elevation is very high?
500
It is a place that is in a natural state.
What is the "wilderness"?
500
Yosemite has many national treasures worth preserving is the underlying message of the story also known as this.
What is the theme?
500
El Capitan is Spanish for "the Captain".
What is a fact?
500
On her last day, the author drove over this pass.
What is Tioga Pass?
500
This exceptional sight in the park can grow over 300 feet tall and live more than 3,000 years.
What are the giant sequoia trees?
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