Lift Unit 6 Review

Match the vocabulary word to its definition.

• a feeling of thankfulness

• perspective

• to say you will definitely do something

• objective

• not knowing something

• commit

• a way of thinking about something

• ignorance

• a goal or purpose

• appreciation

Match the vocabulary word to its definition.

• surprising

• marine

• Earth's seven large land masses

• tributary

• a small stream that flows into a river

• unexpected

• successful; finished

• accomplished

• having to do with saltwater or the ocean

• continents

Decide if each statement is TRUE or FALSE about exploration.

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• The only place humans haven't explored is space.

• Exploration is doing something to learn more.

• You can explore things without going anywhere.

• Learning is a type of exploration.

• You can't explore after you've lived in one place for a long time.

• Exploration is only traveling.

What does it mean to "visualize" a text?

• to see what you're reading in your head

• to highlight important details in the text

• to look at a text really closely

• to annotate the text for later

You visualize a text using...

• sensory details

• the longest words and phrases

• descriptive verbs

• strong nouns

What is the sensory detail in this sentence?

"High above a tea-colored tributary of the Amazon, I was suspended by a rope."

• high above

• tea-colored tributary

• by a rope

• of the Amazon

This sentence evokes which two senses?

"A warm wind of February, laden with the hot greasy scents of frying pancakes."

• touch

• smell

• feel

• hear

• taste

Where on this map did Montgomery travel to in order to find pink dolphins?

What is "chunking"?

• breaking a long reading into pieces

• writing summaries about a story

• reacting to a story

• counting the number of lines in a story

What does it mean to "annotate" something?

• write summaries or reactions about something

• mark-up a writing with highlighting, summaries, and opinions

• only circling words you don't know

• reading something once very quickly