Easter Island Statues (Extensive Reading 1)

Where is Easter Island?

• In South America

• In Middle East

• In Australia

• In the middle of pacific ocean

What is "ahu"?

• The statue

• The platform

• Easter Island

• The stone fiture

What does "moai" represent

• The ancient people

• The island

• The platform

• The statue

When were the giant statues built?

• Around 800 BC

• Close to 800 years ago.

• Around 800 A.D.

• Nearly 800 centuries ago.

What did the scientists find out about the statue?

• The statues stood facing salt water

• The statues were placed close to fresh water

• The islanders drank salty water.

• The statues were made by aliens.

A community was important in building the statues, Lipo said. "Anything that brings you together is going to make you stronger and allow you to survive," he said. "I think that is the secret to Easter Island."

• What Lipo said was a fact.

• What Lipo said was an opinion.

Based on the article, how does water affect communities?

• Communities need water to survive, so they build important things near water.

• Communities need water to survive, so they fight over the best rivers and lakes.

• Water is the only natural resource that communities need to survive

• Water is not a very important resource for the survival of communities.

What does Jo Anne Val Tilburg, an Easter Island expert, think of Lipo's opinion?

• She agreed with Lipo

• She did not agree with Lipo

What do we learn from the reading?

• It is for sure that the statues on Easter Island were linked to freshwater

• It is for sure that the statues were built for religious purpose

• The statues on Easter Island could have been built in relation to fresh water.