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General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
Identify the genre of the passage.
What is expository nonfiction?
100
Tell what beetle eggs hatch into.
What are grubs?
100
True or false: Living trees are important.
What is true?
100
Tell if the passage is real or make believe.
What is real?
100

Give an example of a transformation that occurs in the text One Small Place in a Tree

multiple answers possible.

200
Identify the setting of the passage.
What is a tree in a forest?
200
Explain why the woodpecker flies to the holes in the tree.
What is to find food?
200
Identify which vocabulary word on page 412 means "to get a quick look at something".
What is glimpse?
200
Identify the passage as fiction or nonfiction.
What is nonfiction?
200

She is a star.  Is this an example of figurative language or literal language?

it's figurative.  It's a metaphor. 

300
Explain what scratches on a tree mean.
What is that a bear sharpened its claws on the tree?
300
Name the first animal that uses the hollow place in the tree.
What is a squirrel?
300
Find the vocabulary word on page 416 which means "to stick something sharp through an object"?
What is spears?
300
Identify the author's purpose for writing the passage.
What is to give facts and information?
300
Identify the type of figurative language that compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
400
Explain why the author tells about the bears scratching the tree first.
What is because the scratching makes the hole?
400
Name the animal that may use the hollow place in the tree in the spring.
What are bluebirds?
400
Identify the missing information in the sequence: 1. The bear scratches the tree with his claws. 2. 3. The woodpecker eats the beetles. 4. Bark begins to loosen and fall off.
What is timber beetles make a hole and form tunnels inside the tree?
400
True or false: The author thinks holes in trees are not important.
What is false?
400
Identify the type of figurative language that compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
500
Explain what happens first to a tree that gets a hole.
What is beetles make their tunnels in the hole?
500
Explain how timber beetles change the tree.
What is they make more holes?
500
Identify the season in which you might find mice living in the hollow of the tree.
What is winter?
500
Explain the relationship that existed between the tree and the animals?
What is the animals used it for shelter and a food source?
500

Fact or Opinion:

Organisms can live in trees. 

fact

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