Engaged Reader 1

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

1) Where are fossils often found?

• surface of the Earth

• everywhere

• stone age

• dinosaurs

Give one proper noun from the first paragraph (lines 2–3).

What happened when waves crashed into the cliffs at Lavernock Point in Wales?

• The waves flooded the whole of Wales.

• Dracoraptor filled the whole of Wales.

• They started slowly breaking down the rock to reveal the fossilised bones of a dinosaur named Dracoraptor!

• The cliffs at Lavernock Point in Wales disappeared.

Look at the second paragraph (lines 4–9).

Give a noun phrase which tells us that the sea can be very loud.

• excellent place

• fossilised bone

• Lavernock Point

• crashing ocean.

What were discovered after floods wore away the banks of Red Deer River in Canada?

• A dinosaur named Dracoraptor

• The remains of the small Leptoceratops

• Lavernock Point in Wales

• A cliff

What correct word form for FOSSILISED as it is used in the second paragraph.

• verb

• adjective

• noun

• adverb

What correct word form for NEED as it is used in the second paragraph.

• verb
• adjective

• noun

• adverb

What correct word form for REMAINS as it is used in the second paragraph.

• adjective

• noun

• verb

• adverb

Look at the third and fourth paragraphs (lines 10–17).

Give one word which means ‘people who study fossils’.

Look at the third and fourth paragraphs (lines 10–17).

On the side of Mount Kirkpatrick in Antarctica, which fossils were powerful jackhammer used to uncover in the thick polar rock.

• Dracoraptor

• Leptoceratops

• Cryolophosaurus

• Fulgurotherium