Vocabulary
Setting
Cause and Effect
Generalize
Author's Purpose
100
The uppermost layer of branches in forest trees
What is canopy?
100
The setting of this story
What is the Amazon Rain Forest?
100
Plants can florish and grow because of bees
pollinated trees and flowers
100
A logical generalization
What is valid?
100
The author's purpose
What is to persuade?
200
To hang and swing loosely
What is dangle?
200
The climate of the Rainforest
What is hot, dense, and wet?
200
The man decided not to cut down the trees
He was able to see from the animals' perspectives
200
A broad statement based on several examples
What is generalization?
200
The reason that the author chose to write this selection
What is to describe what happens in a rain forest when the trees are cut down?
300
A fine, yellowish powder released from the anters of flowers.
What is pollen?
300
People are cutting down the the trees in the rainforest
What is to obtain produce, build roads, or make money.
300
Everything in the rain forest continues to grow and grow
It is hot in the Amazon rain forest
300
A wrong generalization
What is faulty?
300
The main reason the man wanted to cut down the Kapok tree
To sell the wood for money
400
Having or giving off a pleasing oder
What is fragrant?
400
Four layers of the rainforest
What is emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor?
400
The man fell asleep beside the kapok tree
because he had just grown tired from trying to cut down the tree
400
Generalization or not? "All animals in the amazon are cared for."
What is true?
400
Why did the author choose to have the animals stay quiet when the man woke from his nap?
To show what the forest would look like if trees were cut down
500
Wonderful; marvelous; remarkable
What is wondrous?
500
The removal of trees of a particular area of land
What is deforestation?
500
The snake did not want "Senhor" to chop the tree down
The tree was the tree of miracles, his hope, and where his ancestors had once lived.
500
Generalization or not? "The place an animal lives in the rain forest depends on the amount of sunlight it prefers."
What is true?
500
The author chose many animals in this selection
To show how the loss of the Kapok tree would affect the lives of a variety of animals.
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