Background
People and Places
Numbers
Boats
Vocabulary
100
The genre of "The Incredible Quest to Find the Titanic."
What is expository nonfiction?
100
Name of the ocean in which the Titanic sank.
What is the Atlantic?
100
1912
What is the year the Titanic sank?
100
Name of the ship found at the bottom of the ocean.
What is Titanic?
100
Parts left over.
What are remains?
200
All the details in the story support this.
What is main idea?
200
City the Titanic was heading to when it sank.
What is New York City?
200
1986
What is the year Ballard explored the wreckage of the Titanic?
200
Little submarine that can carry three people.
What is Alvin?
200
Headed for failure.
What is doomed?
300
The positive or negative feeling a word produces.
What is connotation?
300
Southampton, England
Where did the Titanic set sail from?
300
3,533
What was the number of passengers and crew on the Titanic?
300
Small robot submarine.
What is Jason Jr.?
300
Rising toward the top.
What is ascent?
400
Literal meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
400
Name of the big island that the glacier that sunk the Titanic broke off from.
What is Greenland?
400
300,000 tons
What was the weight of the iceberg that the Titanic hit?
400
Research ship that Ballard used.
What is Atlantis II ?
400
Excessive and fancy.
What is lavish?
500
A skill that requires you to shorten information and put it in your own words.
What is summarizing?
500
Edward Smith
Who was the captain of the Titanic?
500
25 miles per hour
What was the speed the Titanic was traveling when it hit the iceberg?
500
Picked up survivors from the Titanic.
What is the Carpathia?
500
Unclear and difficult to view.
What is murky?
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