Discovering Dinosaurs Test

Vocabulary Choose a word that has a similar meaning as the underlined word. His teeth decayed from eating too many sweets and not brushing them twice a day.

• rotten
• healthy
• alive
• normal

Vocabulary Choose a word or phrase that has a similar meaning as the underlined word. The dinosaurs are now extinct.

• still alive
• moved away
• died out
• missing

In the vocabulary word extinct, what prefix do you see? What does it mean?

Vocabulary Choose a word or phrase that has a similar meaning as the underlined word. The students went on a field trip to the museum to see fossils.

• a dig site
• a place that exhibits things from the past
• desert
• ocean

Vocabulary Choose a word that has a similar meaning as the underlined word. While digging in the backyard, the children found what looked like fossils.

• rocks
• training wheels
• remains of a once living thing
• sand

When my nephew grows up, he wants to be a paleontologist. Describe his job title?

What is the main idea of this selection?

• Fossils are cool
• Fossils can tell us about the past.
• Scientists are careful with fossils.
• Fossils are old.

Provide keywords that show a sequence text structure.

Give one detail from the passage that helped you determine the main idea.

What caused the scientists to rush to "Whale Hill"?

• It was a great vacation spot.
• They wanted to see what life was like there.
• They wanted to study the fossils found there.
• They played rock, paper, scissors to determine their next travel destination.