Grade 10 Vocabulary Study 12

................... are animals such as modern birds and mammals that keep their body temperatures constant.

• mammals

• endotherms

• mounds

• hibernates

The ........................... of endothermy allows sustained physical activity, such as running

• hibernation

• efficiency

• physiology

• excavation

Running is ............... only if an animal’s legs are positioned ............................ its body, not at the body’s side, as they are for crocodiles and many lizards.

• integrated/refute

• spilled/cast doubt

• thickened/mound

• efficient/underneath

One of the main crops of the Chaco people was grain .................., which could be stored for long periods of time without spoiling and could serve as a long-lasting supply of food

• spill

• maize

• deposit

• mound

One theory holds that the Chaco structures were purely ......................, with each housing hundreds of people.

• excavated

• festive

• integrated

• residential

In particular, the Chaco houses appear ............................ similar to the large, well known “apartment buildings” at Taos, New Mexico, in which many people have been living for centuries.

• efficiently

• strikingly

• story

• deposit

Close to one house, called Pueblo Alto, archaeologists identified an enormous .................... formed by a pile of old material

• discard

• deposit

• mound

• story

........................ of the mound revealed ......................... containing a surprisingly large number of broken pots.

• discards/maize

• integrations/spills

• hibernations/mounds

• excavations/deposits

People gathered at Pueblo Alto for special ceremonies. At the ceremonies, they ate ............... meals and then .................. the pots in which the meals had been prepared or served.

• festive/spilled

• residential/spilled

• festive/discarded

• integral/refuted

Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they ....................................... on the specific theories discussed in the reading passage.

• integrate

• cast doubt

• refute

• discard