How do Sentences Work?
Animal Fun Facts
Vocabulary
How do Words Work?
Yellowstone National Park
100

Is this a run-on or a complete sentence?

Beavers build with branches they use mud to hold the branches together. 

Run-on

100

What happens to a beaver's teeth if it doesn't chew wood?

The beaver can die.

100

Predator

An animal that eats other animals to survive.

100

What is the meaning of the root "bio"?

Life

100

In what US state is Yellowstone located?

Wyoming. 

200

Which of these words is an example of a conjunction:


yellow

because

screech!

because (it connects cause and effect)

200

What color are a beaver's teeth?

Orange.

200

Ecosystem

All the living things in one place and their connection to the nonliving things in the same place.

200

What does does the prefix "de" mean?

Away from, down or opposite.

200

For about how long have humans been present in Yellowstone?

11 thousand years.

300

What preposition should be used in the blank?

Scientists release the wolf packs _____ Yellowstone.

in/into

300

Bees are bioindicators.  What does this mean?

They tell us about the health of the whole ecosystem.

300

Instinct

The natural way an animal behaves without being taught.

300

What does the suffix "ness" mean?

The state or condition of being.

300

Why were the wolves in Yellowstone shot?

People in the early 1900s considered them to be threats.

400

Where does the comma go in this sentence?

"Zero voices in the hallway" Mrs. Reid called pleadingly. 

After hallway.  SHHHHHHHH.
400
What is an apex predator?

The animal at the top of the food chain. 

400

Scavenge

To eat dead or decaying plants or animals.

400

What does the prefix "dis" mean?

Opposite or not.

400

What is a geyser?

A natural hot fountain that shoots boiling water into the air. 

500

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

So many. 

500

What is an example of a decomposer?

Mushrooms, beetles, worms.

500

Producers

Living things that make their own food. 

500

Which is the word for the sound of the door in a haunted house?

Creek!

Creak!

Creak. 

500

Which US President created Yellowstone National Park?

Ulysses S. Grant

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