Grade 5 -- Wordly Wise Lesson 3

Dinosaurs first appeared over 200 million years ago and died out 65 million years ago. That is a _____ of about 135 million years.

• ferocious

• preserved

• puny

• duration

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

The world of the dinosaurs was vastly different from today's world. It is impossible to _____ what it would have been like to live in those times.

• carnivorous

• gigantic

• comprehend

• evident

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The world at that time was a savage one of hunters and hunted, where _____ creatures would have stood no chance.

• preserved

• puny

• option

• survive

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Dinosaur skeletons are found buried in rock. It is _____ that the bones and the rock are about the same age.

• evident

• carnivorous

• premature

• option

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Most creatures living tens of millions of years ago left no trace behind. Only a small number happened to be _____ in rocks for us to discover.

• duration

• preserved

• prey

• obscure

A twenty-foot long Utahraptor may seem large, but it looks small when compared with the _____ Tyrannosaurus Rex, which measured fifty feet.

• prey

• survive

• ancestors

• gigantic

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Its ten-inch claws and huge, sharp teeth give Tyrannosaurus Rex a scary look. It is probably the most _____ looking of all the dinosaurs.

• ferocious

• evident

• puny

• premature

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

Dinosaur teeth tell scientist what kind of creature the teeth belonged to. They show whether the creature was plant-eating or _____.

• duration

• preserved

• carnivorous

• obscure

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The largest of all dinosaurs ate only plants. They were not equipped to fight and were the natural _____ of meat-eaters such as Tyrannosaurus Rex.

• comprehend

• prey

• survive

• extinct

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Did a meteorite hitting Earth cause the dinosaurs to die out? Scientists who once though this explanation _____ now believe it to be correct.

• ancestors

• ferocious

• premature

• gigantic

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A