Fennec Fox
Silver Ant
African Dwarf Crocodile
African Bearded Vulture
Writing Mechanics
100
The Fennec Fox lives in this famous region.

What is the Sahara Desert?

100

Silver ants can survive in temperatures as hot as this.

What is 158 degrees Fahrenheit?

100

The African Dwarf Crocodile lives in these regions.

What are the forested wetlands in parts of Central and West Africa?

100
The African Bearded Vulture is found in these regions.

What are parts of East Africa and southern Africa?

100

This is the preposition in the following sentence:

Mr. Roth put one million dollars in his bank account.

What is "in"?

200

This adaptation allows the Fennec Fox to withstand high sand temperatures and gain traction on dunes.

What are furry foot pads?

200

Silver Ants rely on eating this for its diet.

What are incapacitated bugs?

200

This adaptation allows African Dwarf Crocodiles to outcompete other crocodiles in more confined areas.

What is a smaller size?

200

African Bearded Vultures usually have this many offspring per season.

What are two offspring?

200

This word of the following sentence needs a comma placed after it:

Mr. Roth was going to play D1 basketball but he didn't want to make all the other athletes feel too bad about themselves.

What is "basketball"?

300

At this temperature, the Fennec Fox will begin sweating.

What is 105.6 degrees Fahrenheit?

300

The Silver Ant gets its color from this physical adaptation.

What are dense, triangular hairs?

300

If this crocodile was confined to an area with only enough water to drink and not swim in, it could still achieve this level of success.

What is a high level of success?

300

This behavior would be shown by an African Bearded Vulture if it found a yummy, yummy Rhinoceros femur that it wanted to eat.

Why would the bird drop it onto rocks from high in the sky?

300

The following example is this type of sentence:

(simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex)

Mr. Roth crossed up Mr. Jordan, and he dunked on Mr. V.

What is a compound sentence?

400

The Fennec Fox, and other canines, are closely related to this domesticated animal.

What are dogs?

400

These protect the Silver Ant from metabolic failure.

What are "heat-shock proteins"?

400
Compared to other crocodiles, African Dwarf Crocodiles eat prey that could be described as this.

What is smaller?

400

This physical adaptation allows African Bearded Vultures to safely swallow jagged shards of bone without injury.

What is an elastic esophageal lining?

400

The following two clauses are named this:


Because Mr. Roth was tired, he could only bench 500 lbs.

What are a dependent clause and an independent clause?

500

The Fennec Fox's oversized ears serve these two purposes.

How does the fox cool down its blood and locate its prey?
500

Silver ants can run just shy of this many feet per second.

What is 3 feet?

500

This has been connected to the African Dwarf Crocodiles most visually striking physical difference from other crocodiles.

What are caustic bat droppings?

500

This substance makes adapting to digest bone be worthwhile.

What is nutrient-dense bone marrow?

500

This is the part of speech of the word "however" in the following sentence:

Mr. Roth loves reading Stephen King's novels; however, they take forever to finish.

What is a conjunctive adverb?

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