2.10 - UNIT TWO REVIEW, Africa Digs, Pages 41-79 (Blue)

Read the following text, then choose the correct answer. I bake a cake. My father helps. We like to make good food. We use flour, eggs, and milk. We bake the cake in the oven for 30 minutes. Tomorrow, we will take the cake to a picnic. The picnic is at the lake. Which sentence gives you details you would need to know if you were going to the store to buy ingredients for a cake?

• We bake the cake in the oven for 30 minutes.

• We use flour, eggs, and milk.

• The picnic is at the lake.

• We like to make good food.

Read the following excerpt from the passage, then choose the correct answer. Excerpt from “Africa Digs!” They put the bones on a ship, which takes them across the Atlantic. Then, the bones are shipped to Chicago. The team carefully opens each piece and cleans each bone. They match the numbers on the jackets to the numbers in the dig’s log. The bones are put in the right order. Now it’s time to rebuild the skeleton. This step takes two years and hundreds of hours. They use dental tools, tiny jackhammers, and chemicals. The work is careful and precise. They have to clean more than 200 bones. These bones came from the adult Jobaria. But they have some other bones as well. These are from young Jobaria. They clean these bones too. Once the bones were in Chicago, which step happened first?

• The scientists brushed the bones.

• The scientists unwrapped and cleaned the bones.

• The scientists made clay bones to fill in the missing ones.

• The scientists attached copies of the bones to a steel frame.

Why did Dr. Sereno and his team visit Niger, Africa?

• to learn about the desert

• to study the Touareg people

• to look for dinosaur bones

• to see if Jobaria was real

This paragraph explains how the scientists __________.

• have good luck

• find the adult’s bones

• fill in the missing bones

• make things with foam

Which sentence summarizes the paragraph?

• The dinosaur bones had a long trip from Africa to Chicago.

• Dinosaur bones are heavy.

• Ships are the best way to get dinosaur bones to Chicago.

• Trucks have to drive slowly when they carry dinosaur bones.

Jobaria’s bones are too heavy and fragile to put together. Which is an antonym for the word fragile?

• dainty

• smooth

• afraid

• sturdy

Which of these would you want to display?

• a mistake you made

• a prize you won

• a cake you burned

• a pair of socks

They drive 1,000 miles to a port in Ghana. Which of these is related to the word port?

• a cargo ship

• a garden

• a special tool

• a painting

The scientist made a precise measurement. Precise means _________.

• exact

• approximate

• random

• vague

I used paints and paper to __________ a painting.

• create

• destroy

• ignore

• erase