Nature & Animals
1.
What three things do living things need to live?
Food, water, and air.
3.
What weather tool tells how warm the air is?
A thermometer.
5.
What is the world's smallest country?
Vatican City.
7.
In which town and country does the La Tomatina festival take place?
Bunol, Spain.
10.
The minute hand moves around the clock once in how many hours?
1 hour
2
(O/X) Anteaters use their long tongues to get bugs inside trees.
X (Anteaters use tongues to get ants; Woodpeckers get bugs inside trees.)
11.
What do meteorologists study?
3) Weather
6.
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest.
8.
Flamenco is a traditional dance in Spain that tells a story, and ( ) are very important to the story.
costumes
12.
In what year did Thomas Edison invent a light bulb?
1879.
11.
What do we call scientists who like to study animals?
Zoologists.
4.
If there is too much rain, it can cause a ( ), which makes rivers and lakes overflow.
flood
7.
(O/X) At La Tomatina, people must squash the tomatoes before throwing them.
O
Tap dancers wear special shoes with metal plates at the toe and the heel. Suppose there are 18 tap dancers on the stage. Then, 15 more tap dancers come.
Write the number sentence to find how many dancers there are in all.
18 + 15 = 33
10.
When it is 30 minutes, you can use the phrase "( ) past."
half
2.
Yaks live high in the Himalayan mountains, and their wooly ( ) keep them warm in cold winter.
coats
4.
During a drought, why might animals die?
Because plants can't live without water, and without plants, animals may die.
5.
Russia is the world's largest country. How many countries does it share borders with?
14 countries.
8.
Which is NOT true about tap dancing?
3) The taps on the shoes are made of wood. (They are made of metal).
12.
There were light bulbs before Thomas Edison. So why was his light bulb better?
Because it lasted much longer and was much safer.
1.
Explain two reasons why rocks and soil are nonliving things according to the text.
They are not alive, so they do not need food/water/air, do not grow, and do not make new things like themselves.
3.
Why is it important for scientists to measure the weather and find patterns?
Because patterns help scientists predict the weather, which lets us prepare for bad weather.
6.
Who was George Everest, and why was the mountain officially named after him?
He was a British surveyor and geographer, and the mountain was named in his honor because his team measured the exact height of Everest for the first time in 1856.
Let's make a subtraction problem using the facts from the La Tomatina text. Bunol is a small town, but a huge crowd gathers on the big day.
About how many extra visitors come to the town for the festival?
20,000 - 9,000 = 11,000
12.
Why was Alexander Graham Bell interested in sound, and what famous thing did he invent in 1876?
He was interested in sound because both his mother and wife were deaf.
He invented the telephone.