Vocabulary
Inferencing
Main Idea
Photos and Maps
Compare/Contrast
100
From "Tiptoeing Scientists": "The scientists begin picking up handfuls of leaves and ______ing them."
1. to give shelter to 2. to guard from injury 3. to examine for a particular purpose 4. to shield from view
What is "screen?"
100
"Tiptoeing Scientists": Tiny frogs have developed these to protect themselves from danger.
What are adaptations?
100
"Tiptoeing Scientists": These creatures are very difficult for scientists to capture.
What are tiny frogs?
100
The author of "Tiptoeing Scientists" included this image to emphasize the size of the frog by comparing it to this familiar object.
What is a quarter?
100
Michael Vecchione and and Marco Pie both observe animal species, but Vecchione has access to these resources that Pie does not utilize.
What is high-tech equipment?
200
This word from "Tiptoeing Scientists" describes the knotty, tangled roots of trees on the forest floor in paragraph 1.
What is "gnarled"?
200
From "A Ghostly New Creature," we can conclude that studying newly discovered animals requires careful observation of an animal, also called this.
What is analysis?
200
The following summary is the best fitting for which article?
"Scientists made an exciting find in the waters near Hawaii. While mapping the ocean floor to study ocean life, scientists saw a mysterious octopod. It was so unusual that scientists decided they had discovered a new species. The octopod that scientists found was unique, suggesting there are still undiscovered species located in other parts of the world."
What is "A Ghostly New Creature?"
200
The author of "A Ghostly New Creature" most likely included the photo of the octopod to illustrate the reason why it was nicknamed after this cartoon character.
Who is Casper?
200
The scientists in "A Ghostly New Creature" and "Tiptoeing Scientists" both do their work in these kind of environments.
What is isolated?
300
These locations in "Tiptoeing Scientists" where frogs make their home is so called due to the high elevation forming condensation in the tree canopy.
What are cloud forests?
300
Based on Vecchione's comments about the octopod in "A Ghostly New Creature," we can conclude that he feels this emotion about discovering new species.
What is fascination?
300
The author of "A Ghostly New Creature" probably included the map of the Hawaiian Islands because that was the location of this important element of the article.
What is the discovered octopod?
300
C. I. Moore from "Tiptoeing Scientists" is unlike Michael Vecchione from "A Ghostly New Creature" because he is likely to observe this more than once.
What is a newly discovered species?
400
The scientists in "Tiptoeing Scientists" sometimes have to resort to this action when the frogs fall silent, which means "to carefully examine."
What is forage?
400
From "A Ghostly New Creature":
Still, the octopod’s discovery is exciting because it suggests that many more undiscovered species could live in the deep sea and other places on Earth.
This selection and "Tiptoeing Scientists" have this experience in common with each other.
What is discovering new species?
500
From "A Ghostly New Creature," this term describes the pigment cells missing from the body of the octopod which give things color.
What are chromatophores?
500
The octopod does not have this visible trait in order to protect itself in its deep ocean habitat, while the tiny frogs do have this for protection in theirs.
What is coloration?