Fiona Wood: a Life in Science

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Wood was named Australian of the Year Wood moved to Western Australia to work as a surgeon Wood led the team treating burns patients after the Bali bombings Wood was made a member of a British society of arts
2. Details In what year did this happen? "Wood led the team treating burns patients after the Bali bombings."

   1958 2002 2012 1987
3. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Wood moved to Western Australia to work as a surgeon." Later: "She was named Australian of the Year."

   28 18 19 17
4. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "burn" mean?

   the force that pulls objects toward each other a room or building for experiments and research carefully watching something to learn about it an injury to the skin caused by heat, chemicals or electricity
5. Character traits Which word best describes Fiona Wood?

   careless forgetful bored inventive
6. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Wood was inventive?

   As a child in Chicago she was sure she would one day go to space. She looked for a faster way to cover burns so that patients would heal with fewer scars. She searched the crumbling cliffs after every storm, spotting bones others walked past. She measured X-ray patterns by hand for months to be sure her results were right.
7. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   how to become a teacher the life and work of George Washington Carver the life and work of Fiona Wood the life and work of Marie Curie
8. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

   as a problem and its solution from most important to least important event by comparing two people in time order, from earlier events to later ones

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