Everglades

At the end of the selection, the children want to return home quickly so they can__________.

• Have dinner

• Watch television

• Grow up and save the Everglades

• Grow up and build large cities

The state of Florida is a ___________.

• Triangle

• Long rectangle

• Grassy island

• Peninsula

A____________ of orange blossoms will bloom, filling the grove with a wonderful scent.

• Plenitude

• Scurried

• Pondered

• Peninsula

Students__________ the ideas presented in the video on life in outer space

• Entrusted

• Pondered

• Multitude

• Scurried

As the wolf approached the clearing, the other animals ______________ off to safety.

• Pondered

• Multitude

• Scurried

• Peninsula

Vocabulary question.........We got lots of ocean breezes at the cottage because it is located on a ____________ that juts into the ocean.

• Peninsula

• Multitude

• Plenitude

• Pondered

Alligators can walk unhurt among the spears of saw grass because they_____________.

• Have very tough skin

• Have large teeth to chew the saw grass

• Crawl under the saw grass spears

• Eat the spikes of the spears

In this selection, the author describes the Everglades as a "living kaleidoscope of color and beauty" because ________________.  

• Many kinds of trees, flowers, and animals live there

• The pieces of glass in the kaleidoscope change color constantly

• Orchids grown along the sides of the trees

• The birds are as colorful as the flowers

When Lake Okeechobee flooded, the spill_________________.

• Flooded Miami

• Became a river

• Formed waterfalls

• Filled holes with limestone

_______ is rock formed on the bottom of the sea by seashells.

• Sandstone

• Quicksilver

• Saw grass

• Limestone

According to the selection, egrets almost became extinct because________.

• They were killed by other animals for food

• Indians used their feathers for headdresses

• Hunters sold their feathers to decorate women's hats

• The winters became too cold for them

Who were the next people to move to the Everglades?

• Spanish Conquistadors

• Creek Indians

• Seminole Indians

• Calusas

Which group of early visitors still has some people living in the Everglades?

• Spanish Conquistadors

• Seminole Indians

• Creek Indians

• Calusas

The beginning of the selection describes the Everglades____________.

• As they are today

• During the Age of Seashells

• During the Age of Exploration

• In the early 20th Century

Who were the first people to come to the Everglades?

• Spanish Conquistadors

• Seminole Indians

• Creek Indians

• Calusas

The Spanish Conquistadors left Florida because____________?

• It was too hot for them

• Alligators attacked them

• The land was too jungle-like

• Creek Indians drove them out

What is the sad story the children heard? (type in your answer)

What is the happy story the children heard? (type in your answer)