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Pathways
100

The costume Otis wore in chapter 1

A bull costume

100

A town where the population grows quickly

boomtown

100
Another word for sunrise

dawn

100
The abbreviation of January

Jan.

100

It's easy to get lost in underwater caves because ___________________.

it's very dark

200

The sport Hack Battleson played

football

200

How did miners get gold?

They washed the gold to separate it from dirt because gold is heavier than soil

200

Past tense of "think"

thought

200

Fix this sentence:

I fell asleep at 2:00 AM yesterday.

A.M.

200

Underground, underwater deep cave

blue hole

300

The girl who kept feeding Mutt

Ellen

300

"I Have Heard of a Land" is about who?

Pioneers/Pioneer life

300

Another word for the season "fall"

autumn

300

The initials of Jim Bean Evers

J.B. Evers

300

The deepest place in the world

Mariana Trench

400

Otis' teacher

Mrs. Gitler

400

In "In My Family", what are nopalitos?

Freshly-cut cactus pads

400

A part of a finger at a joint where the bone is near the surface, especially where the finger joins the hand

knuckle

400

Fix this sentence:

The boys ran quickly silently and anxiously.

The boys ran quickly, silently, and anxiously.

400

An object that people made a long time ago

artifact

500

What Mutt was supposed to eat and drink

soda pop and white bread

500

What type of figurative language gives human qualities to animals or objects?

personification

500

satisfactory, but not especially good; acceptable

all right
500

Fix this sentence:

The author also wrote the true story of three little pigs.

The True Story of Three Little Pigs.

500

What is "astrobiology"?

The study of life in the universe

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