Mary Anning Lesson 3

Check the TWO answers that apply to this question.

What is the main idea of the text?

• Mary was an important scientist.

• Henry and Mary are close friends.

• Mary discovered some creatures that lived during the same time as dinosaurs.

• Other scientists found bones that looked like the ones that Mary found.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What does the author MAINLY discuss about Mary?

• Henry made watercolor drawings of Mary's creatures.

• Mary and her brother go to the shore, where they find a huge fossil skull.

• The skeleton that was sold in London.

• Mary's success as a scientist and how the world remembered her.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is one example the author provides to show that Mary made important discoveries?

• She was close friends with Henry.

• She found ancient creatures and over thirty kinds of fossil fish.

• She was smart and hardworking.

• She borrowed books because she was to poor to buy them on her own.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is one example the text provides to show that Mary became famous for her work?

• A scientist named two fossils fish after her.

• She cleaned and shined the bones and saw how they fit together.

• Mary and her father were fossil finders.

• Mary spent her whole life in the place she loved best, near the sea and the crumbling cliffs with their fossils hidden deep inside.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

Geology is the study of........

• dirt

• plaster

• flowers

• rocks

Paleontology is the study of .........

• ancient people

• ancient fossils and ancient life

• ancient clothes

• ancient jewelry

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4