Worksheets6. 3 HMH Grand Canyon
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Where does the Grand Canyon A Trail Through Time take place?
The Colorado River
The Grand Canyon National Park
The Rim of the Canyon
The View of The Woodland
The author helps us to visualize the text. How does the following sentence help you visualize? A predawn storm rumbles over Grand Canyon National Park
how the canyon looks
how the canyon feels
how the canyon sounds
how the canyon smells
The author helps us to visualize the text. How does the following sentence help you visualize? Wildflowers stand around them in patches of purple and pink.
how the canyon looks
how the canyon smells
how the canyon feels
how the canyon sounds
The text says that the Colorado River made a channel. What is a channel?
a new lake
a roaring noise
a mound of land
a pathway for water
Why can visitors find shells and fish teeth in some of the rock layers of the canyon?
the land was once covered with water
food was buried there
the Native Americans lived there
there were once animals
Who build the granaries (storage place for food and trade)?
canyon guides
the mules
Anasazi Indians
Some Indians
The mountains stand like sentries on the plateau. This is a simile, the author compares mountains to _______.
top hats
canyons
soldiers
a century
Which fact proves that the Grand Canyon is MASSIVE and worth of being one of the seven natural wonders of the world?
a rushing river runs along the bottom of the canyon
different plants and animals live there
visitors like to ride mules
the Canyon is more than a mile deep and more than 250 miles long
How does the author of the text present her information?
She uses problems and solutions
She talks about the canyon over the course of one day
she only gives important facts
she only gives her opinion
Fossils are embedded in the rock layers. What does the word embedded mean?
to be firmly set into something
to be floating above the surface
to be around the canyon
to be noticed by pack mules
