Nonfiction Review Games 2021

Nonfiction Review Games 2021

Multiple Choice

What is the Main idea?

There are several events that can change the Earth's surface very quickly. Volcanoes can erupt and spread lava, rock, and ash for several miles. Earthquakes can leave large cracks in the Earth's surface.

• Ash can spread for miles.

• Volcanoes erupt frequently.

• Several events change the surface of the earth.

• Earthquakes leave cracks.

Multiple Select

If this is the main idea: There are several events that can change the Earth's surface very quickly. What are the details of this paragraph: There are several events that can change the Earth's surface very quickly. Volcanoes can erupt and spread lava, rock, and ash for several miles. Earthquakes can leave large cracks in the Earth's surface.

• Earthquakes leave large cracks.

• Volcanoes spread lava.

• Tornadoes devastate homes.

• Rock can spread for miles.

Reminders about Main ideas and Details

• Main idea focuses on big picture info Great places to look -- headings and topic sentences

• Supporting details are more specific.  They “prove” the main idea Often found in the body of a paragraph

Multiple Select

Which statement is a fact?

• Graduates of the Parisian cooking school Le Cordon Bleu make the most delicious meals.

• Dione Lucas was the first woman to graduate from the cooking school Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence states an opinion?

• Tourists who appreciate Chinese history must see the Great Wall of China.

• Workers added a great deal of stone and brick to the Great Wall of China during the Ming Dynasty.

Multiple Choice

What is this sentence?

Alaska, which has thirty-nine mountain ranges, is the best state for outdoor sports.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

What is the best tone of this passage?

I can appreciate now, even more than I did then, the extreme simplicity and modesty that so well matched her grand, classic beauty. She was the good fairy at a Christmas Tree Festival, to which all the American girls and boys in Florence were invited.

• admiring

• caring

• postive

• disgusted

Multiple Choice

What words in this passage indicate a lighthearted tone?

Of course, when she laughed, Aunt Abigail had to laugh too, setting down her coffee cup and showing all the funny wrinkles in her face screwed up hard with fun; and that made Uncle Henry laugh, and then Cousin Ann laughed and said, as she sat down, "You are bad children, the whole four of you!"

• "setting down her coffee cup"

• "Aunt Abigail had to laugh too"

• "'You are bad children'"

• "showing all the funny wrinkles"

Multiple Choice

What words in the passage indicate a threatening tone?

There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its sadness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. The cold mist made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed one another, as the waves of an unhealthy sea might do.

• "as the waves"

• "made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed one another"

• "it had roamed in its sadness up the hill"

• "like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none"

Multiple Choice

Read the text: You have probably heard of the pH scale, which measures how acidic or basic different solutions are. A solution's acidity or basicity is related to its concentrations of hydronium ions and hydroxide ions. When a strong acid is added to a solution, atoms in the solution break apart to form hydronium ions. This leads to a more acidic solution. When a strong base is added to a solution, atoms in the solution break apart to form hydroxide ions. This results in a more basic solution. What is the effect of this statement: Hydronium ions form in the solution.

• The solution becomes more acidic

• The solution becomes more basic.

• The solution stays the same.

Multiple Choice

Read the text: The Zika virus is a disease spread mainly by an infected mosquito. Symptoms last for several days to a week and include fever, joint pain, rash, and conjunctivitis. Due to the fact that the symptoms are similar to the symptoms of other diseases many cases of Zika are not properly diagnosed. Zika symptoms are usually mild. As a consequence, many people with Zika may not even know they have the disease. There isn't a vaccine available for the Zika virus, so the best method of prevention is protection against mosquito bites. What is the cause of this effect: Many people don't realize they are infected.

• Zika symptoms are similar to those of other diseases

• Zika symptoms are mild.

• There isn't a Zika vaccine

Multiple Choice

Choose the best detail to support the statement that it's not always easy to tell when a flood will occur.

• All floods are not alike.

• Flash floods can develop quickly without any visible signs of rain.

• Flash floods often have a dangerous wall of roaring water.

• A wave can carry rocks, mud, and other debris.

Multiple Choice

Select the best evidence to support the statement that the first electric cars had several drawbacks:

• Coal was too heavy to use for fuel, so people tried other things.

• For a while batteries seemed to be the answer.

• Batteries were heavy and cumbersome relative to the power they supplied.

• By 1897, New York City had a fleet of electric taxis.

Multiple Choice

Decide the best summary of this: Is it an ant, you wonder, or a termite? Ants resemble termites, but they are quite different and can be easily distinguished. In contrast to termites, ants are usually dark in color, are hard bodied, and have constriction between the thorax and abdomen. Termites are light in color and shed their wings. Flying ants do not shed their wings. Also, ants and termites belong to different orders.

• Termites are lighter in color and lose their wings at a certain stage of development.

• Ants are dark in color, hard bodied and belong to a different order than termites.

• Ants and termites are both insects and have many things in common

• Although ants resemble termites, they have differences that can be easily seen.

Multiple Choice

Dinosaurs lived on the Earth for approximately 180 million years. About 250 million years ago during the Permian Period, the Earth's seas shrunk. Reptiles, including dinosaurs, survived this period. The dinosaurs were the strong, dominant reptiles of the period. By the end of the Jurassic Period, dinosaurs had reached enormous sizes and roamed the Earth as leaders. In the Cretaceous Period, the dinosaurs died out, and more mammals began to flourish.The reason why dinosaurs were able to survive the Permian Period is because:

• The only needed to eat vegetation in order to survive.

• They were stronger than some of the other mammals.

• They were able to swim.

• The Permian Period didn't last for a long time.

Multiple Choice

What is the best paraphrase of the following sentence?

Brazil is the largest country in South America and Suriname is the smallest.

• The biggest country in South America is Brazil, while the tiniest is Suriname.

• The largest country is Brazil and the smallest country is Suriname, and they are both countries in Brazil.

• Suriname and Brazil the largest and smallest countries in Brazil.

• The two countries of Brazil and Suriname are two countries in Brazil.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence best paraphrases the ideas in the passage?

"Although television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s, small, experimental television images were broadcast in the 1920s."

• Television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s.

• Television became popular in the 1920s, and again in the 1950s.

• Television became popular in the 1950s, but the first televisions were used thirty years earlier.