Context Clues
Poetry & Inferencing
Organizational Pattern
Inferring
100

Escalate in this poem means 

What is become more intense

100

The poet most likely includes the information about the title of the poem to 

What is give the reader some background information to help understand the poem

100

Which of the following statements best describes how the author organizes the information in paragraphs 5, 6, 7? 

What is the author classifies each boundary by describing the direction of tectonic plate movement

100

From reading paragraph 4, the reader can tell that scientists study the tectonic plates of the Pacific Ocean because - 

What is seismic activity, along with many different fault lines, trenches, and boundaries in the Pacific Ocean give geologists a lot of interesting material to analyze 

200

The word prose in line 18 means 

What is something that is written

200

The speaker in this poem is most likely

What is a child whose family is hiding from Nazis

200

Summarize: What is the best summary of the section titled "Three Kinds of Plate Boundaries: Convergent, Divergent, and Transform?

What is the different ways tectonic plates move can create three different types of boundaries.

200

Figurative Language: The author uses the analogy of boats in a pond in paragraph 1 as a way to - 

What is help the reader visualize the different ways that tectonic plates move

300
What does wary mean in line 30

What is watchful of danger

300

Read the first stanza of the poem. 

Don't speak , Hardly walk, Can't creak 

These lines are best described as

What is orders the speaker's parents give to their children

300

Based on the information in the selection, what can the reader infer about life on the shores of the Pacific Ocean?

What is people along the Ring of Fire spend more time and money planning for dangerous situations than people in other regions