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100
What is to place again?
replace
100
What phrase is "Beginning his career as a commercial artist, ..."?
Participal phrase
100
What is a series of musical tones?
melody
100
Why can't humans hear fin whales' long-distance songs?
the songs are too soft
100
What is the longest humpback whale song on record?
twenty-two hours, but the whale was still singing when the scientist left
200
What is not fit?
unfit
200
What phrase is ".... into the Statehouse"
Prepositional phrase
200
What is slight, rapid movements?
vibrations
200
How would you contrast (not compare) whales and elephants? - how they communicate - where they live - their size
where they live
200
What made Dr. Payne think that the elephants at the Washington Park Zoo were sending infrasonic messages?
she felt a throbbing in the air every ten or fifteen seconds
300
What is not tamed?
untamed
300
What phrase describes or explains another noun in the sentence?
Appositive
300
What is having a sound so low that people cannot hear it?
infrasonic
300
How do whales probably make their sounds?
using some of the complicated "plumbing: in their heads, but no one really knows how they do it
300
What are the ways that elephants use infrasonic sounds?
to stay in touch with each other, to arrange meetings at waterholes, and to find mates
400
What is to view again?
review
400
What phrase includes a participle and any modifiers or objects?
participial phrase
400
What are exchanges of observations, opinions, or ideas?
conversations
400
What kind of animal sings the most complicated songs?
humpback whales
400
What did people think elephants' strange rumbles were?
the elephants' stomachs digesting food
500
What is not beaten?
unbeaten
500
What phrase begins with a preposition?
Prepositional phrase
500
What are parts of a song that are repeated after each verse?
choruses
500
When do humpback whales change their songs?
at the beginning of the spring migration
500
When Dr. Payne taped the elephants' sounds, what did she notice about the elephants?
their foreheads trembled when they made infrasonic sounds
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