New Places Vocab
Changing Earth Vocab
Rocky Mountain National Park
EARTHQUAKES
Teacher's Mixed Bag
100

The state of having no light

darkness

100

A very big rock

boulder

100

Where is the park located?

Colorado, USA

100

Where do earthquakes happen most often?

Near fault lines

100

DAILY BONUUUUUUUUUS

Worth 1000 points

What is Mr. Thatch's favorite food?

PIZZA

200

A part of a bigger area of land

An area; A zone

region

200

to burst or break open violently

explode

200

What are the three life zones?

Alpine, sub-alpine, montane

200

WHY do earthquakes happen?

The moving of Earth's tectonic plates

200

My mother_____


This is the WHAT part of a sentence?

The name part

(subject)

300

Unusual or strange

Weird

300

Where the ocean meets the land

edge of land near a body of water

shore

300

Which zone contains moose, elk, fat squirrels (Abert's Squirrels) and mule deer?

The montane

300

What happens when there's an underwater earthquake?

Tsunamis

300

Is this a complete sentence?

Is it missing anything?

went to the store to buy some candy.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(its only the telling part)

400
Strange and scary; weird

(obviously if I give you the hint weird, the answer is not weird)

eerie

400

A trait of something

A quality or characteristic of something

A feature

property

400

What kind of animals live in the sub-alpine zone?

(any) mule deer, martens, bobcats, chickadees, juncos.

400

How do scientists measure earthquakes?

They use a special machine called a seismograph (need name for full points)

400

Give me 4 prepositions (1 point each)

in, above, under, over, with, into, through, outside, 

500

Mild

Having temperatures not too hot, and not too cold.

temperate

500

Belonging to the nearby area or neighborhood 

located close by

near

local

500

Give me 1 plant that lives on the alpine zone and 1 animal 

Wild flowers

Hardy plants


Pikas, big horn sheep, marmots, ptarmigans

500

Remember that ancient earthquake detecting machine on page 85? What country was it from?

China!

500

Make a prepositional phrase on the board. Full sentence. No punctuation mistakes and don't forget *something* very important

Ex. In an hour, I will go home

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