It's Latin and Greek to Me 2
Target Vocabulary
Life on the Bottom (of the world)
Verbs Helping Verbs
Picture this Comparison
100
The teacher advised students to inspect their work for accuracy.
What is examine or look at carefully?
100
Vocabulary word that best fills the blank: "When I ______ my leg, I had to get a cast to help the broken bones heal.
What is fractured?
100
This is the tiny, shrimp-like animal that the author and her companions cook with garlic, butter and a little pepper.
What is krill?
100
If you are going to study for the test you ______ do it soon! (can, could, should)
What is should?
100
"Near the top, I heard a cracking sound, a slap magnified a million times," is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
200
Because you know Greek word parts, you know telescope means this.
What is a tool for seeing objects faraway
200
A deep, narrow crack that the author falls into.
What is a crevasse?
200
This is how the author organizes her journal.
What is by sequence of events, or time order or events?
200
When dinner is finished, you ______ have some dessert. (will, may, should)
What is may?
200
The figure of speech the author uses to describe falling into a crevasse: "I stared below into a blue-green hole cut with facets like a diamond."
What is a simile?
300
Using the Greek word part -vis-, visable means
What is able to watch or look?
300
At the electricity assembly,the presenter had an exhibit of many different kinds of electricity equipment. A vocabulary word that can replace EXHIBIT in the sentence.
What is display?
300
The author uses a whole journal entry to describe her observations of hundreds of Adelie penguins at their nesting site, also called this
What is a rookery?
300
To ride the roller coaster you _______ be at least 48 inches tall. (can, may, must)
What is must?
300
"To my horror, I saw a pattern of cracks zig-zagging, like a fractured window glass...." What type of expression the author uses to describe the cracks in the ice.
What is a simile?
400
Because of the Latin word part -spect the word spectacular means something is exciting to see or watch. So a spectator is this.
What is someone who sees or watches something?
400
On the morning of the test, I was focused, aware, and ready to do my best. This vocabulary word can replace AWARE in the sentence.
What is alert?
400
The is why the author uses phrases like, "at twilight," "earlier today," "it was three in the morning," and "after a few deep breaths."
What is to show sequence of events or time order of events?
400
The difference between these two modal auxiliaries is: one is the ability to do something and the other is getting permission to do something.
What are can and may?
400
"Echoes of sound, aftershocks, sizzled in the air." The author uses this metaphor to compare ice cracking to this sound.
What is something sizzling?
500
Destructive is to tearing down as this is to building up.
What is construct?
500
A vocabulary word that means you are stuck and unable to reach your destination
What is stranded?
500
For 1/20 of a second, at sunset on January 6, near Palmer Station, Antarctica. Why this moment was important to the author.
What is the setting, in which she sees the very rare "green flash?"
500
The helping verb that should to be changed in this sentence: The teacher said we must read about the South Pole, or we could research the North Pole.
What is must to could?
500
What two things does the author compare in this simile: "As it fell, its orb glowed a deep orange. The shape of it was fat, like a squashed pumpkin
What is the setting sun and a squashed pumpkin?