Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms - Vocabulary
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Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms - Vocabulary
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4th Grade
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This quiz focuses on vocabulary development through context clues and word meaning comprehension, making it appropriate for 4th grade students. The questions assess students' ability to determine word meanings from contextual information, understand morphological patterns (such as the suffix "-ness" in "suddenness" and "-less" in "harmless"), and recognize antonym relationships. Students need strong reading comprehension skills to extract meaning from complete sentences, knowledge of common prefixes and suffixes to decode unfamiliar words, and the ability to distinguish between similar answer choices that may be plausibly related to the context. The vocabulary spans multiple semantic fields including weather phenomena, physical processes, temporal concepts, and descriptive adjectives, requiring students to apply flexible thinking strategies rather than relying on memorized definitions. Created by Miss Perez, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 4. This vocabulary quiz serves as an excellent tool for building academic language skills and can be effectively used as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before reading complex texts about natural disasters, as independent practice to reinforce vocabulary instruction, or as formative assessment to gauge students' progress with context clue strategies. Teachers can assign this as homework to extend learning beyond the classroom or use it during guided reading sessions to support comprehension of science-related texts. The quiz aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.4.A, which requires students to use context as a clue to the meaning of words and phrases, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5.C, which focuses on demonstrating understanding of words by relating them to their opposites.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the word whirling mean in the sentence below?
The hurricane's whirling winds are very destructive.
dangerous
huge
spinning
strong
Tags
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the word condense mean in the sentence below?
I watched the moisture condense on the side of the cold glass.
disappear
change color
start moving downward
change from a gas to a liquid
Tags
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the word ancient mean in the sentence below?
Ancient artists created paintings of animals on cave walls.
from long ago
from another country
having advanced ideas
having little talent or skill
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the word source mean in the sentence below?
What is the source of your information?
how something is used
when something ended
why something is important
where something comes from
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the word registered mean in the sentence below?
The air temperature was registered on the thermometer.
erased
heated
hidden
recorded
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.5.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the word enjoyment mean in the sentence below?
Good weather contributed to our enjoyment of the picnic.
hunger
luck
pleasure
happiness
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RI.5.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the word suddenness mean in the sentence below?
The storm arose with great suddenness.
quickness
rainfall
strength
windiness
Tags
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.4.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.4
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