Mary Anning: How One Life Changed the World

Questions

1. Sequence Which of these happened first?

   Anning was made a member of a British society of arts Anning uncovered the rest of the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be recognized Anning helped equip ambulances with X-ray machines to treat soldiers in World War I Anning found the first pterosaur skeleton in Britain
2. Details In what year did this happen? "Anning uncovered the rest of the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be recognized."

   1812 1805 1822 1828
3. Timeline math How many years passed between these two events? First: "Anning uncovered the rest of the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be recognized." Later: "She found the first pterosaur skeleton in Britain."

   17 29 15 16
4. Timeline math About how old was Anning in 1823?

   24 29 23 36
5. Vocabulary In the passage, what does "fossil" mean?

   growing different crops in a field from year to year to keep the soil healthy the wearing away of soil or rock by wind or water the tiny, heavy center of an atom the remains or traces of a living thing from long ago, preserved in rock
6. Character traits Which word best describes Mary Anning?

   lazy observant bored careless
7. Evidence Which detail from the passage shows that Anning was observant?

   Women were not allowed to attend university in Poland, so she studied in secret and later moved to Paris to continue. She searched the crumbling cliffs after every storm, spotting bones others walked past. She sat quietly in the forest for months before the chimpanzees let her come close. She finished high school at 14 and college at 18.
8. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the life and work of George Washington Carver the life and work of Mary Anning the life and work of Jane Goodall the life and work of Marie Curie
9. 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 as a list of steps to follow in time order, from earlier events to later ones
10. Author's purpose Why does the author end with the final paragraph?

    to list every prize the person won to describe where the person grew up to explain how to do an experiment to show that her work still matters today

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