Week 15 Daily Passages

Which is a feature of both projects?

• glass tubes

• carved clay figures

• handwritten notecards

• vinegar and baking soda

Which feature does Bernadette’s project have that Lea’s does not have?

• trees and rocks

• lava

• plaster and wire

• paint

Which statement describes how the projects are different?

• Only one of them is brown.

• Only one uses a variety of materials.

• Only one of them has a display.

• Only one of them uses a chemical reaction.

Lea and Bernadette are both _______.

• worried about losing

• confident about their work

• upset about competing against each other

• afraid of volcanoes

Some ants are to aphids as human ranchers are to _______.

• aphids

• dirt

• cattle

• fertilizer

One way that humans and ants are different is that humans can _______.

• work in teams

• build structures to live in

• communicate with one another

• live for decades

Antennae are to ants as _______ are to humans.

• voices

• legs

• heads

• species

Which statement does the passage best support?

• Humans are superior to ants in every way.

• Ants are better farmers than humans are.

• Humans and ants are adapted to live everywhere in the world.

• Humans and ants have more in common than it may seem.

Based on the passage, you can tell that the Bone Wars ______.

• proved that rivalry is always bad for science

• ended an interest in dinosaur fossils

• brought both good and bad results

• were carried on by the next generation

The author suggests that scientists Marsh and Cope ______.

• could have achieved more by working together

• should have started their own museums

• should have worked in different areas of science

• did not know what they were doing