Mariana Trench
What is the genre of the story?
a) literary nonfiction
b) information texts
c) poetry
b) information texts
What is the genre of the story?
a) informational texts
b) poetry
c) literary nonfiction
a) informational texts
What is the genre of the story?
a) informational texts
b) literary nonfiction
c) poetry
c) poetry
What is the genre of the story?
a) poetry
b) literary nonfiction
c) informational texts
b) literary nonfiction
What is to break suddenly into small pieces?
a)shatter
Where is the Mariana Trench located?
a) east of the Mariana Islands, southeast of China & Japan
b) west of the Mariana Islands, southwest of China & Japan
c) north of the Mariana Islands, southwest of China & Japan
a) east of the Mariana Islands, southeast of China & Japan
What are the ringing rocks in eastern Pennsylvania made of?
a. diabase
b. marble
c. slate
a. diabase
Where is the Great Barrier Reef?
a) Alaska
b) Antartica
c) Australia
c) Australia
Where is the Grand Canyon located?
a) New Mexico
b) Las Vegas
c) Arizona
c) Arizona
What is to wear away or eat into?
c)erode
Where is Mount Everest located?
a. Pacific Ocean
b. Southeast of China and Japan
c. near the border of China and Nepal
c. near the border of China and Nepal
What do the scientists do to solve the mystery of moving rocks?
a. They set up a weather station.
b. They put tracking devices in all kinds of rocks.
c. They record the rock’s movement with time-lapse cameras.
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
Which word best describes how the poet feels about the poem, “The Great Barrier Reef”?
A.great
B.awesome
C.beautiful
D.all of the above
D.all of the above
How long is the trail to the riverbed?
A.6 miles
B.275 miles
C.10 miles
C.10 miles
What is a deep crack in the earth's surface?
c)chasm
What is the Challenger Deep?
b. It is the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.
What text structure does the author use to organize information about the mystery of moving rocks?
c. problem and solution
How many stanzas does the poem “The Mariana Trench” have?
C.3
What landforms existed in the area that is now the Grand Canyon? Choose 2 answers.
volcanoes
mountains
What is to set firmly in some surrounding material?
b)embed
Why do you think there have only been two people who have visited the Challenger Deep?
It is so deep it is hard to get there. It’s dangerous for humans.
How would you know you are in a cave full of stalagmites?
they grow upward from the cave floor
What happens to Mount Everest every year? Why?
it grows a little over an eighth of an inch every year. the Indian plate continues to move against the Asian plate.
What does the word granary mean?
a place where plants and crops are stored by Anasazi Indians.
What is to shine or sparkle with reflected light?
glisten