WorksheetsCuriosity on Mars
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which sentence best tells the main idea of this book
NASA is the United States' space agency.
Curiosity is a rover sent to Mars to look for evidence of life on the planet.
NASA scientists will be listening for at least the next two years as Curiosity drives on Mars.
Curiosity landed on Marks on August 6, 2012.
Read this sentence: Microbes might be in the soil. Which of the following means the same as microbes?
vehicles
intense wavelengths
information
microscopic organisms
What type of book is Curiosity on Mars?
realistic fiction
descriptive nonfiction
fantasy fiction
informational nonfiction
What is the author's main purpose in this book?
to inform
to persuade
to explain a process
to entertain
Three of the following sentences are supporting details. Which sentence tells the main idea?
In 1996, the United States launched the Pathfinder probe.
Many space probes have been sent to Mars to study its geology and look for evidence of live.
Spirit and Opportunity were sent to study Mars in 2004.
Sojourner's findings showed scientists that Mars was more Earthlike than originally thought.
Which statement is an opinion?
Exploring Mars is the most exciting operation NASA has ever undertaken.
Curiosity is outfitted with many newly designed pieces of equipment.
Curiosity has a rock-blasting laser.
The building blocks of life include carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and other elements.
How is Earth different from Mars?
The seasons change.
There are volcanoes, mountains, and valleys.
Life is known to exist on the planet.
Earth is much older.
Curiosity, Spirit, Opportunity, and Sojourner are supporting details to which main idea?
The War of the Worlds is a movie about Martians attacking Earth.
There are four basic elements that are considered the building blocks of life.
Scientists relay signals using three satellites orbiting Mars.
Different robotic rovers have studied Mars.
What was the cause of the people of New York City panicking in 1938?
They learned Mars and Earth were very similar.
They heard on their radios that a huge flaming object had smashed into a New Jersey farm and Martians were invading.
They hard that an astronomer saw canals on the Martian surface.
They learned that NASA had sent a spacecraft to Mars to search for aliens.
Earthling is to Earth as __________ is to Mars.
Martian
Curiosity
NASA
extraterrestrial
