A Place For Frogs Vocab and Word Study

Directions: Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word.

Tim is hoping the garden will make a comeback.

• return to health

• decrease in insects

• damaged by chemicals

• harmed by the sun’s rays

Directions: Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word.

We saw all the native plants at the nature reserve.

• real

• foreign

• carefully arranged

• belonging naturally

Directions: Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word.

Rangers are trying to restore the elk population.

• return to original condition

• carefully burn some forest areas

• move from one place to another

• permanently decrease the number of

Directions: Read the question. Then choose the best answer. Which word group is a synonym for fungus in the sentence below?

I just learned that the mushrooms I love to eat are a kind of fungus!

• pest that gets nutrition from crops

• plant that gets nutrition from insects

• seedling that gets nutrition from soil

• organism that gets nutrition from decaying matter

Which word has a final stable syllable?

• article

• citizens

• community

• family

The word below that has been correctly divided into syllables is 

• in/credib/le

• love/abl/e

• tri/a/ngle

• hor/ri/ble 

Choose the word that is correctly divided into syllables in each item below.

• ad/dit/ion

• pro/tecti/on

• pop/ul/ation

• in/for/ma/tion

Choose the word that is correctly divided into syllables in each item below.

• ex/plosi/on

• oc/cas/ion

• de/ci/sion

• dis/cu/ssion

Choose the word that is correctly divided into syllables in each item below.

• hurd/le

• ob/sta/cle

• cru/mble

• stru/ggle

 Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word. 

 

Monarch butterflies are migrating to Mexico now. 

•  staying behind 

•  permanently moving 

•  moving with the seasons 

•  having trouble surviving