Dinos in the Dark reading Comprehension

Use the Dinos in the Dark reading passage to help answer the following question.

Why were scientists surprised to find dinosaur bones near Antarctica?

• They believed dinosaurs migrated away from cold climates

• They believed dinosaurs could only have survived in warm climates

• They believed Australian and Antarctica would have had different temperatures

• They believed all dinosaurs became extinct because of cold weather

How does the author tell about the climate of Dinosaur Cove?

• By explaining how dinosaurs had to adapt

• By identifying differences between its location then and now

• By describing the amount of daylight during different seasons

• By comparing it to the weather of Alaska

Read the excerpt from the text. " Ans that's not all. Dinosaur Cove was located near the South Pole." This means that for several months each year, the Sun never rose. Instead, Dinosaur Cove was plunged into a dark, cold winter night that didn't end until the spring or summer."

In this paragraph, what does the word plunged mean?

• Ran toward

• pushed away

• fell suddenly

• walked slowly

How does the author explain the effect of living at Dinosaur Cove on the dinosaurs?

• by showing that dinosaur fossils were found there by paleontologists

• by showing that dinosaurs of Dinosaurs Cove lived on a peninsula and could not migrate

• by describing that dinosaurs were like turtles, snakes, and crocodiles

• by describing that dinosaurs of dinosaur Cove were the last dinosaurs on Earth

Which statement from the text explains what helped dinosaurs stay alive in the darkness?

• "In other parts of the world, dinosaurs probably migrated away from the winter's darkness."

• "Big eyes also helped the dinosaurs watch out for predators that would have hunted them."

• "Since these trees didn't lose their needles in the winter, they were food for the plant- eating dinosaurs."

• If the dinosaurs were "warm-blooded" like birds, then they could have made their own heat."

According to the text, why were the dinosaurs in Dinosaur Cove unable to move to a warmer place?

• They lived on an island and could not travel

• It was too dangerous to migrate

• They did not know about warmer places

• Warmer places were too far away

But what if some dinosaurs could survive cold polar winters? Could they also survive on a colder planet? What if the descendants of the animals at Dinosaur Cove survived the extinction? Could they have been the last dinosaurs on Earth?

Q:How does the author show in the paragraph above that scientists may not have all the information they need?

• by asking a lot of questions

• by using a timeline of events

• by talking about the extinction of dinosaurs

• by telling the reader that information is hard to find

Which detail supports the main idea of the text?

• That dinosaurs could see in the dark

• That dinosaurs could not swim

• That dinosaurs survived in cold places

• That dinosaurs migrated to warmer places