Vocabulary
A dry place with few plants.
Desert
What is the direct object in this sentence?
The scientists cleaned the bones.
bones
Light the _________ of a candle.
A. Lick
B. Pick.
C. Sick
D. Wick
D. Wick
Who led the dig?
Dr. Sereno
This is the title of the story.
Africa Digs
The fossils were so _______________, so they had to make copies.
Fragile
a. WHO is doing an action
b. WHY the action is done
c. WHAT the action is done to
c. what the action is done to
Which word is a PLURAL noun?
a. bats
b. bat
c. cup
d.Blake's
A. Bats
Where did the dig take place?
Where would you display a dinosaur skeleton?
Museum
To show or put something in a place where others can see it.
display
What is an antonym for CREATE?
A. Design
B. Destroy
C. Discover
B. Destroy
Which word is a possessive noun?
a. Blake's
b. baby
c. babies
d. water
a. Blake's
How did the dig team protect the fossils?
They made jackets out of plaster.
Scientists watched the baby bird ___________ from the egg.
Fill in the blank with a vocabulary word.
Emerge
A wheel and rope used to lift heavy objects is a...
pulley.
Why did Dr. Sereno and his team need to make a blueprint?
to know how to put the bones together.
How would you divide the syllables in the word uppercut?
a. up/pe/rc/ut
b. upp/erc/ut
c.upper/cut
d.up/per/cut
d. up/per/cut
Why did Dr. Sereno's team make bones?
Some bones were missing.
We used a __________ to lift the heavy boxes onto the ship at the ____________.
Use 2 vocabulary words to fill in the blanks!
Pulley and Port
A place on the water where people load and unload ships.
Port
What is the purpose of Africa Digs!
To summarize events
Read the paragraph. What is the main idea?
There are many vegetables sold at the market. Carrots are the best seller. Carrots come in bunches of 5. People also buy lots of tomatoes and zucchini. The farmers bring their best vegetables to sell.
a. Farmers have a lot of vegetables.
b. There are a lot of vegetables at the market
c. Zuchinni is gross.
d. Cucumbers are green.
b. There are a lot of vegetables at the market
Why did the Touareg tribe help Dr. Sereno?
They knew the desert best.
Put these words in the correct order.
with fixed her from tools her bike dad She
She fixed her bike with tools from her dad.