A w2 Purpose for reading: we are learning to identify the features
of an informational text.
of an informational text.
Text: Exotic radise
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Answer the questions below and record your answers for posting on your blog. Write in complete sentences. Try to use some of the rich vocabulary from the list.
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Continents (n)
Predatory (adj)
Mammals ( n )
Prehisdtory (adj)
Fossil (n)
Pattered ( v )
Molar (n)
Catalogue ( n )
Palaeontologist (n)
Sediment ( n )
Palaeolake ( n )
Notion (n)
Archetypal (Adj)
Evolved ( v )
Complex ( Adj )
Prolific (adj)
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Terrestrial (adj)
Vertebrates (n)
Fragments(n)
Ancestral(adj
Dwarfed (v)
Unearthed(v)
Undisputed(v)
Genus(n)
Burrowing(v)
Exodus(n v)
Recolonising(v)
Painstaking(adj v)
Evolutionary(adj)
Bottleneck(adj)
Hubs(n)
Globally(adj)
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How long ago was the Mesozoic era?
Name three animals that lived in that time and three that did not.
According to the article what happened to tropical plant species during the Pleistocene era?
What new species arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand at the time of the Pleistocene ice ages?
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Explain, in your words, the theory behind the Gondwana supercontinent. You may need to research first.
Name three animals that have been discovered at Lake Manuherikia that we definitely do not have in Aotearoa/ New Zealand today.
If Lake Taupo has an area of 616km², how big is Lake Manuherikia?
Why are there so many gaps in our terrestrial fossil records?
Complete the response to Informational Text as found in your literacy folder.
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Create a quiz about the article “Exotic Paradise” using google forms. How to make a quiz.
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(1) Fossil - a bone that comes from a once living mammal, vertebrate,
Rocks or other materials (2) Evolved - animals that have been taking
time to turn into something like a life cycle(3) Mammals - Are animals
that don’t lay eggs like us(4) Vertebrates - are animals that have a
backbone and invertebrates are animals that doesn't have any back bone
Rocks or other materials (2) Evolved - animals that have been taking
time to turn into something like a life cycle(3) Mammals - Are animals
that don’t lay eggs like us(4) Vertebrates - are animals that have a
backbone and invertebrates are animals that doesn't have any back bone
(5) Continents - continents are A region that hold countries
(1) The Mesozoic era was 252 million to 66 million years ago
(1) The Mesozoic era was 252 million to 66 million years ago
(2) 3 animals were alive dinosaurs, stegosaurus,tyrannosaurus rex
megalodon. Three animals that were not alive in the Mesozoic humans,
hedgehogs and Cats as we know them now.(3) During the Pleistocene
era plants died out because of the temperature dropping from 16-20℃
down to 3-7℃. (4) Pleistocene ice age was when the haast’s eagle,
takahē and the large laughing owl.(5) Gwandalan was a supercontinent it
had australia, india, new zealand and antarctica
megalodon. Three animals that were not alive in the Mesozoic humans,
hedgehogs and Cats as we know them now.(3) During the Pleistocene
era plants died out because of the temperature dropping from 16-20℃
down to 3-7℃. (4) Pleistocene ice age was when the haast’s eagle,
takahē and the large laughing owl.(5) Gwandalan was a supercontinent it
had australia, india, new zealand and antarctica
(6) 3 animals that were found in the lake Turtles, Crocodiles, Flamingos,
(7) Lake Manuherikia covered 5600 sq km of central otago (8) there are
so many gaps in the terrestrial fossil record because movement of
the continental plates causing geological upheaval.
so many gaps in the terrestrial fossil record because movement of
the continental plates causing geological upheaval.
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