An Ant's Life
Fabulous Vocab
Graphic Features
Participles
Just for fun
100

Ants are compared to what living things because "they live in social communities and work together to solve their problems."

What are humans/people?

100
The vocabulary word that means more than is needed or usual.
What is excess?
100
The graphic feature that authors use to show time order or how one event may have lead to another.
What is a timeline?
100
The word described by the participle BILLOWING in this sentence: The dark, billowing clouds often precede a storm.
What is clouds?
100
The insect that have been digging through dirt for more than 100 million years.
What are ants?
200

This ant has the job of protecting the anthill and making sure that ants from other colonies don't go inside.

What is a guard ant?

200
The vocabulary word that means to make stronger with more material, help, or support.
What is reinforce?
200
The graphic feature authors use to divide the text into different sections that also help readers when they are skimming or scanning through a text.
What are headings?
200
The word that is described by the participle COOKING: The cooking ham smelled wonderful in the kitchen.
What is ham?
200
The only continent on Earth where there are no ants.
What is Antarctica?
300

The author's purpose for writing "The Life and Times of the Ant".

What is to inform?

300
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word: Food is _________ in many countries.
What is scarce?
300

The graphic feature authors use to help the reader understand information in a simpler form, understand steps, and how objects are made. Often contains arrows and images.

What is a diagram?

300
State the participle AND the type of participle in this sentence: Do not waste time staring at a closed door.
What is closed; past participle?
300
The number of ants a giant anteater can devour in 3 meals if each meal consists of 20,000 ants.
What is 60,000?
400

In the fable, "The Dove and the Ant", the dove saved the ant by doing this.

What is the Dove grabbed a twig and dropped it in the water for the ant to climb on.

400
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word: Student desks, fallen books and pencils, and other _____________ made it hard to get across the classroom.
What is obstacles?
400
The graphic feature that authors use to explain a photo or illustration.
What is a caption?
400
What is the participial phrase in this sentence? She showed us a plate of doughnuts crammed with cream.
What is "crammed with cream"?
400
In the story," The Life and Times of the Ant", it stated that an ant can "dig up more than 16 billion tons of dirt". How many zeroes are in the number if you write it in standard form?
What is are 9 zeroes? (16,000,000,000).
500
The moral of the fable "The Dove and the Ant".
What is the best way to make friends is by exchanges of kind deeds.
500
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word: Can you __________ these papers to Mr. Tennyson's room?
What is transport?
500

The graphic feature that authors use to show something in a visual way.

What is a drawing or illustration?

500
What is the participial phrase in this sentence? The man carrying the bricks is my father.
What is "carrying the bricks"?
500
In the story "The Life and Times of the Ant", it stated that an elephant can lift one fifth of its weight. If an elephant weighs 6,000 pounds, then it can lift this much??? (think fraction of from math class)
What is 1,200 pounds?
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