Wordwise Space

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10 questions

Note from the author:

This assignment focuses on standard RI.3.5, using nonfiction text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic.

3.RI.5  Uses text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic.

Using the nonfiction text features in the book Worldwise Space, find the answers to the following questions

1. The title of the book tells you the book is about

2. What is the heading on page 9?

3. There is a diagram on pages 30-31. What does it tell us about?

4. What topic in the index begins on page 28?

5. On page 12, the caption by the dinosaur tell us that dinosaurs lived from ___ to _ years ago.

6. What type of print is used to talk about Pluto on page 22?

7. The diagram on page 36 shows the parts of a

9. Match the chapter title to the page it begins on in the index. Click on the chapter and drag it to match the page it begins on.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Moon Landing		12
Cometary Collision		16
Robots and Humans in Space		24
Earth and Mars		36

Using the glossary, useful words, match the key word to the definition. Click on and drag the word to the definition.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Asteroid		is a small rocky body orbiting the Sun.
White dwarf		is a round hollow on the surface of a planet.
Crater		is an old large and bright star.
Red giant		is a dim, small star at the end of its life.

10. Using the index, match the topic to the page(s) that it will be found on. Click on the topic and drag it to the page number(s).

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Milky Way		33
black dwarf		14
Galileo		8, 30

Wordwise Space

1. The title of the book tells you the book is about

2. What is the heading on page 9?

3. There is a diagram on pages 30-31. What does it tell us about?

4. What topic in the index begins on page 28?

5. On page 12, the caption by the dinosaur tell us that dinosaurs lived from _________ to _______ years ago.

6. What type of print is used to talk about Pluto on page 22?

7. The diagram on page 36 shows the parts of a

9. Match the chapter title to the page it begins on in the index. Click on the chapter and drag it to match the page it begins on.

Using the glossary, useful words, match the key word to the definition. Click on and drag the word to the definition.

10. Using the index, match the topic to the page(s) that it will be found on. Click on the topic and drag it to the page number(s).

5. On page 12, the caption by the dinosaur tell us that dinosaurs lived from ___ to _ years ago.