A tropical cyclone with winds of 74 miles per hour or greater.
What is a hurricane?
100
It describes nouns and pronouns.
What is an adjective?
100
The homograph "wind" can mean air. The letters w,i,n,d can also be pronounced like this.
What is "wind" (to wind a toy)?
100
A smokejumper's helmet is made of this.
What is metal (aluminum)?
100
When the author lists events in order.
What is sequence?
200
This word means, "to set on fire."
What is ignite?
200
The three articles.
What are "a,an,the?"
200
The homograph "steer" can mean a male cow. Another meaning for the word, "steer" is this.
What is to drive or guide?
200
This person makes sure that the smokejumpers are jumping from the right place so that they will land safely near the fire. He/she gives the the signal to jump.
What is the "jumpmaster?"
200
This is often found in the very first sentence of each paragraph.
What is main idea?
300
Smokejumpers work to put these out.
What is wildfires?
300
Name all of the adjectives in the following sentence:
The brave smokejumper battled the intense blaze.
What is "brave" and "intense."
300
The homograph "moped" may mean "to be sad." A different pronunciation and meaning for this word is this.
What is moped- a lightweight motorbike that can be pedaled?
300
They fight fires just like smokejumpers, but they don't jump from airplanes.
What is a "hotshot?"
300
Determining the writer's reason for writing.
What is author's purpose?
400
Another word for equipment and tools.
What is gear?
400
Name all of the adjectives in the following sentence:
We traveled to beautiful Philadelphia to view the American symbol of freedom.
What is "beautiful" and "American"?
400
Name two pronunciations and meanings for the word, "dove."
What is
dove- a type of bird
dove- leap into the water?
400
Once smokejumpers have landed, they dig trenches, cut down trees, and chop away this.
What is "underbrush?"
400
When the author's purpose is clearly stated it is this.
What is "explicit?"
500
A machine which changes mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
500
Name all adjectives and articles in the following sentence:
A smokejumper can use his fireproof tent as protection from the intense fires.
What is "fireproof" "intense" "A" "the."
500
A word that is spelled the same but can be pronounced two different ways and can mean "to shut" or "to be near."
What is "close"?
500
A wide dirt barrier which firefighters create to stop the spread of a wildfire is called this.