Night of the Grizzlies

Night of the Grizzlies

Multiple Choice

Human activity, such as leaving food and trash lying around your campsite, can ______ wild animals.

• help

• devour

• endanger

Multiple Choice

Which BEST expresses a main idea of“Night of the Grizzlies”?

• Harming nature can harm humans

• Grizzly bears are dangerous.

• National parks are beautiful places

• Kids must learn to stay safe in nature.

Multiple Choice

What caused grizzly bears to attack humans in Glacier National Park?

• Humans tried to harm the bears.

• Garbage caused the bears to stop fearing humans.

• The bears were testing the humans’ strength.

• The bears were mindless and cruel.

Multiple Choice

Why is the first section of the text important?

• It explains the steps taken to keep humans safe from bears

• It tells the history of grizzly bears in America.

• It sums up the problems grizzly bears faced before 1967.

• It describes the setting of Glacier National Park and the bears that live there.

Multiple Choice

On page 9, Tarshis writes, “Two weeks later, they would realize that they’d been lucky to escape with their lives.” Tarshis means the boys realized

• their camp stove had been damaged and was in danger of bursting into flames.

• the bear they saw at their campsite had followed them to the ranger station.

• they could have gotten lost in the woods while hiking to the ranger station.

• the bear they saw at their campsite was the same bear that killed one of the young women.

Multiple Choice

The purpose of the map on page 7 is to show

• how grizzlies’ territory has shrunk over time.

• the locations of national parks across the U.S.

• the path of Lewis and Clark’s expedition.

• the location of the national park where the events described in the article occurred.

Multiple Choice

On page 6, Tarshis writes, “Grizzlies have been lumbering across North America for some 50,000 years.” Tarshis likely chose the word lumbering

• to emphasize that grizzly bears are capable of running faster than a galloping horse.

• to signal that grizzlies have sharp claws.

• to reflect how long grizzlies have been here.

• to evoke the slow, heavy way that grizzlies walk.

Multiple Choice

In the story and videos, we have learned that grizzly bears MOSTLY eat..

• plants and moths

• hot dogs and chili

• people

• mountain lions

Multiple Choice

What did some national parks once do to entertain visitors in the park?

• feed the bears by putting leftovers out on big tables

• lock up the leftovers in bear-proof trash cans

• put bears on bicycles and have them carry dogs

Multiple Choice

Sacred means _____________.

• a big change

• very scary

• far away and hard to get to

• highly valued and respected; worthy of religious worship

Multiple Choice

quickly eating something in a way that shows you are very hungry

• habitats

• sacred

• aggressively

• devouring

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very scary

• lurking

• fearsome

• devouring

• remote

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waiting in the shadows to do something harmful or wrong

• roasting

• fearsome

• lurking

• remote

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filled with wonder or amazement

• awe

• aggressive

• rugged

• devouring

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Far away and hard to get to

• transformation

• lurking

• awe

• remote

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Places where an animal or plant lives or grows

• remote

• habitats

• sacred

• shadow

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Rough surface

• lurking

• remote

• rugged

• devouring

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Ready and willing to fight

• aggressive

• remote

• awe

• devouring

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A big change

• habitats

• transformation

• aggressively

• rugged

Multiple Choice

A rain forest in Brazil is a ____________________ for many animals.

• lurking

• remote

• fearsome

• habitat

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Mountain goats can be found on __________________ hillsides or near canyons.

• rugged

• transformation

• devouring

• awe

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A bear is a ______________________ animal because of its size and strength.

• remote

• fearsome

• transformation

• stone

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The Indigenous tribe lived on a _____________________island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

• transformation

• remote

• devouring

• bolt

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The suspicious man was ___________________ in the shadows anxiously waiting to go into the dark house.

• lurking

• sacred

• transforming

• fearsome

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The hungry lion was ___________________ the deer because he had not eaten in weeks.

• aggressively

• lurking

• devouring

• remote

Multiple Choice

Some Indigenous tribes worshiped bears because that believed they were _____________.

• awe

• habitats

• remote

• sacred

Multiple Choice

Choose a synonym for the phrase "filled with wonder"

• fearsome

• aggressively

• awe

• devouring

Multiple Choice

A ___________________ occurs when a caterpillar changes into a butterfly.

• transformation

• remote

• fearsome

• lurking

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The huge grizzly bear ran _____________________ toward the family that was camping near the lake.

• sacred

• aggressively

• devouring

• faersome