Alaska is Melting

What is the main idea of this reading?

• Alaskan trees are dying.

• Warmer temperatures are affecting Alaska.

• Alaska has beautiful glaciers.

• Alaskan villages must relocate.

What does the word 'collapse' mean?

• To fall or be destroyed

• Terrible

• A huge mass of ice on land

• To melt

Which country is mentioned in the passage?

• Thailand

• Brazil

• Ireland

• China

__________ of the state's area is glaciers.

• 50 percent

• 25 percent

• 10 percent

• 5 percent

What is NOT the effects of thawing permafrost?

• Roads collapse.

• Utility poles collapse.

• People living along the coasts relocate.

• Year-round temperature increases.

What does the word 'glacier' mean?

• Permanently

• A huge mass of ice on land

• disappear

• terrible

How much does the ice disappear from Alaska's glaciers each year?

• 100 cubic kilometers

• 200 cubic kilometers

• 75,000 cubic kilometers

• 100,000 cubic kilometers

What will happen to the forest according to the increasing temperature?

• Roads are damaged.

• There are more trees.

• Some insects appears sooner.

• Stroms wipe out the community.

What do the scientists believe?

• Human are in danger.

• The spruce-bark beetle cause global warming.

• Alaska will disappear.

• Temperature increases because of human.

Which is TRUE about the story?

• Permafrost makes the ground under the utility poles warms and soften.

• Alaska's temperature goes down every year.

• 99% of Alaska's glaciers are melting.

• The spruce-bark beetle save the forest from the global warming.