Sentences
What kind of sentence is this?
Mary Anning was interested in fossils.
simple sentence
Mary Anning = subject
was interested in fossils = predicate
Complete the sentence with a vocabulary word from this week:
"And when he found an _____________ fossil, they forgot their troubles...it was a skull as long as a horse!"
enormous
42,708 rounded to the nearest ten thousand is __________ .
40,000
Name the 3 types of fossil fuels.
natural gas, coal, and oil
What type of sentence is this?
Because she studied every day.
Fragment - We never begin a sentence with "because"
What vocabulary word from this week means to get someone to agree with you or believe what you believe?
convinced
400,000
Name some renewable resources.
sunlight, water, wind, geothermal, ethanol, biodiesel
What kind of sentence is this?
Mary's close friend Henry he made a drawing of her creatures and then he made copies of the drawing so people bought them and he gave Mary and her family the money which helped them out a lot.
Mary's close friend, Henry, made a drawing of her creatures. Then he made copies of the drawing. People bought the copies and he gave Mary and her family the money. It helped them out a lot.
What vocabulary word from this week's reading means impatiently longing with great desire
eagerly
When rounding 406,823 to the nearest ten thousand, what number would be the Upper Endpoint when using the vertical number line?
410,000
This type of resource can eventually run out.
Nonrenewable resource
In the beginning, the scientists took credit for Mary's discoveries, but later she was able to take credit for them herself.
compound - the connecting word "but" connects 2 different ideas
People weren't convinced that Mary's new discovery was real until ... what happened?
A group of scientists had found parts of creatures, called plesiosaurs, that looked the same as the skeleton she had found.
When rounding 964,103 to the nearest hundred thousand, what number would be the Midpoint when using a vertical number line?
Explain how an electric car might still run on fossil fuels.
If its battery is recharged by a source powered by a fossil fuel such as gasoline, it ultimately funs on fossil fuels.
Mary became an expert at fossils because she studied them every day.
complex - the connecting word is "because" to relate 2 ideas to each other
Mary borrowed books to read more about science. She wrote letters to scientists to ask them questions. She gathered information, made drawings and notes of everything she studied. She took apart fish to study what they looked like on the inside.
How would you describe Mary through these actions?
possible answers:
smart, hard-working, persistent, curious
Estimate the difference by rounding each number to the nearest ten thousands.
823,460 - 453,913
823,460 --> 820,000
453,913 --> 450,000
820,000 - 450,000 = 370,000
Why are scientists working on alternatives to fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels can eventually run out; we are using it faster than it is being made; burning fossil fuels causes pollution by releasing chemicals into the air and water; they are more harmful to us and the planet.