WorksheetsI Survived True Stories: 5 Epic Disasters
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2hrs 16mins
Why did Walter jump off the sled and return to the classroom?
He forgot his homework.
He wanted to get his football.
He wanted to get a book to read.
He forgot his perfume bottle.
The storm hit the prairie unexpectedly. Define: Prairie
a large circulating funnel of wind
a large open area of grassland
a harbor wave
a rocky, mountainous terrain
Cause and effect: Determine the direct cause of the nuclear disaster in Japan.
An earthquake
A tornado
A tsunami
A hurricane
Why were so many students saved during the tsunami?
The kids did exactly what the teachers told them to do, just as they had practiced in the drills.
The students were tsunami experts and their quick thinking to get to even higher ground saved many lives.
Many students died because they did not follow the rules.
Students stayed at the school.
Define eerie:
Exciting and fun
Cold and boring
Cruel and unkind
strange and frightening
The city was smoldering after the tsunami hit. Define: smoldering.
Burning slowly with smoke but no flame.
Bursting into flames.
Scared or frightened.
Covered in water.
Cause and Effect.
Cause:___________________
Effect: All of the students survived the tornado.
What was the cause that led to the students' survival?
Students did not have school the day of the storm.
The principal had them all stay at school.
Students stayed outside during the storm because it was recess.
The principal sent all of the students home.
There was debris all over the school after the Tornado hit. Define debris.
Scattered pieces of waste, trash or remains.
An organized classroom.
Materials used to clean up a storm.
A storm tracker system.
What is a tornado?
A powerful snowstorm.
A large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in tropical areas.
A violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.
A large ocean wave usually caused by an underwater earthquake or a volcanic explosion.
What did all three stories, The Children's Blizzard, The Henryville Torandoes, and the Japanese Tsunami all have in common?
They were stories where kids made foolish decisions.
They were all written about the same type of storm.
They were all natural disasters.
They were all written about events in New Jersey.
