George Washington Carver: a Life in Science

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Carver was made a member of a British society of arts Carver began teaching at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Carver started a wagon school that brought farming lessons to rural farmers Carver earned a degree in agriculture from Iowa State
2. Sequence Which of these happened last?

   Carver was made a member of a British society of arts Carver started a wagon school that brought farming lessons to rural farmers Carver began teaching at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Carver earned a degree in agriculture from Iowa State
3. Details In what year did this happen? "Carver began teaching at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama."

   1906 1894 1896 1889
4. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Carver earned a degree in agriculture from Iowa State." Later: "He began teaching at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama."

   12 1 2 32
5. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "crop rotation" mean?

   a kind of invisible light that can pass through the body to make pictures of bones an injury to the skin caused by heat, chemicals or electricity the wearing away of soil or rock by wind or water growing different crops in a field from year to year to keep the soil healthy
6. Character traits Which word best describes George Washington Carver?

   unkind bored curious careless
7. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Carver was curious?

   His mother and wife were deaf, and he spent his life studying sound and teaching deaf students. He tested every idea with experiments, even when the results surprised everyone. As a child he collected plants and became known as the 'plant doctor' for helping sick plants grow. He questioned why objects fall and why the Moon stays in the sky.
8. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of George Washington Carver the life and work of Ada Lovelace the life and work of Jane Goodall how to become a teacher
9. Text structure How does the author organize the middle of the passage?

   as a list of steps to follow from most important to least important event by comparing two people in time order, from earlier events to later ones

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