Vocabulary
This word means a young, small tree.
sapling
The trip to the moon took this many days.
4 days
Why did Ms. Goble email someone at NASA?
Her student asked what a Moon Tree was, and Ms. Goble didn’t know. She thought NASA might.
In the sentence “Roosa didn’t just love trees. He fought for them,” which word is the pronoun?
Them
The idiom “break the ice”means what?
To start a conversation or ease tension in an awkward situation?
This energy from the sun can harm your body when you’re in space.
radiation
Roosa brought this many seeds on his trip.
500
What happened to the seeds after the astronauts returned to Earth?
Experts planted them, watered them, and gave them sunlight. 400 survived.
“He chose to take about 500 tree seeds.” Chose is the past tense of what word?
Choose
This idiom means to be extremely happy: “I’m over the ___ about my grade!”
Moon Tree roots sucked up water and these substances from the soil that help living things grow.
nutrients
How many moon trees have been found?
100+
Why did Roosa stay on the spaceship instead of walking on the moon?
His job was to keep the spaceship safe for the return trip.
Read this sentence: “Space is completely different from Earth.”
Which word is the adverb?
completely
Someone who is “on the fence” about a decision is this.
Undecided or unsure
This word names a special type of firefighter who parachutes out of planes to battle fires in faraway forests.
Smokejumper
Name at least three types of trees the text names as seed sources.
Redwood, Douglas fir, and Sycamore
What was Roosa's personal connection to trees?
He loved trees and fought for them as a smokejumper.
In the sentence, “The seeds were stashed safely inside the spaceship,” which word is the preposistion?
Inside
If someone “reaches for the stars,” they do this.
Have a big goal
This word describes how the saplings opened and spread out as they grew. It means “to unroll or spread open.”
unfurling
This is the name NASA gives to trees grown from the seeds of Moon Trees.
Half-Moon trees
Why did the author end the story they way he did?
To get readers interested in discovering more moon trees/
“Only about 130 Moon Trees have been rediscovered.” Name the two helping verbs in the sentence
Have been
If someone is "burning the midnight oil" they are doing what?
Working late into the night