Parts of Speech
What is a person, place, thing or idea. Examples: John, New York, table, love
Noun
Whales are catergorized into two categories. What are those categories?
Balleen and Toothed
What does the word basic mean?
to serve as a starting point or simple.
What am I doing when I provide a logical conclusion using evidence and prior knowledge?
Inferring
Which uses like or as to compare two or more things?
Simile
What modifies or takes the place of a noun?
Ex. he, she, we, they
pronoun
Which category of whales does the killer whale belong to?
Toothed whales
When do whales sing?
When they migrate
What am I doing when I create groups and place information within each group based on characteristics, facts, and other things?
Categorizing
Is this sentence a simile or metaphor?
She is a tiger on the volleyball court.
metaphor
What part of speech shows action?
verb
Which category does the blue whale belong?
Balleen Whales
Only one gender of whale sings, which gender sings?
Males
What am I looking for when I compare two or more things?
Simulatities or things that are alike between the things you are comparing.
When two words are put together to make a new word, we call the new word a ______________?
compound word
What part of speech modifies (takes the place of) a verb?
adverb
Which group of whales uses echolocation to guide through the ocean waters and hunt for prey?
Toothed whales
What are the main reasons scientist think males sing when migrating?
To keep their pod together, because each group has it's own song.
To attract a mate
What am I doing when I make sense or assign a meaning to something?
Interpreting
What is the subject in the following sentence?
Kay placed her car keys somewhere and could not find them.
Kay
adjective
Which type of whale is more chill. This type of whale swims and has filtered teeth and a plate that siffers water.
Balleen
What are two to four elements called when put together in a whale song?
phrases
What are you doing when you explain the relationship between ideas or thoughts (concepts)?
Relating two or more things
What is the predicate in the following sentence?
Kay placed her car keys somewhere she could not find them.
placed