This activity is NOT interactive, but the answers are at the BOTTOM of this page. You have permission to make a hard copy for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.
Word bank for the sentences below (words are listed alphabetically): Please put your answers in the blanks within the sentences. The correct word choice answers are at the bottom of this page.
1. Bobby puzzled over the odd directions pool balls take when they ricochet off each other, a result of a ________ action.Again, feel free to make a copy for use at home or in the classroom!2. When the clerk tripped, spilling hundreds of tiny paper clips, he used a ________ to amass them into a pile.
3. The geologist at the excavation site discovered a significant ________, a print of bones from dinosaurs.
4. If Tim leaves his glass of milk in the hot sun all day, it will ________ and turn sour.
5. Marcia now knows that putting acid and metal together will make a significant ________ of gases.
6. When Ellie added additional sugar to only one end of the scale, its ________ was destroyed.
7. The physicist examined electrons and protons, the most minute particles which make up ________.
8. The team of seismic engineers centered their ________ for oil off the gulf coast of Texas.
9. The statistician calculated and reported every hour the ________ of the hurricane winds.
10. On the windward slope, ________ deposits occurred with frequency and made hikers step cautiously.
11. Documentation exists that states that on the moon there is less ________ than there is on earth.
12. Timmy avidly watched the birds make a ________ of small pieces of string, twigs and grasses into the nest.
13. Frank needs to study only one more abbreviation of an ________ to have memorized forty-five.
14. A diamond, unlike coal, is a ________ that has certain specific properties that can be determined and rated.
15. The scientist speculates that there can be no ________ between a mixture of ammonia and alcohol.
16. The chemist, peering into the powerful microscope, was frustrated to locate only a single atom in the ________.
17. Did you learn in class that a chemical ________ regulates the rate of its reactions?
18. ________ rocks have multiple colors because they are made from various fragments as well as animal and plant remains.
Fill-in-the-Blanks: ["S138Level 1-FITB-you are here"] --
["S138Level 2-FITB"] --
["S138Level 3-FITB"]
Definition MATCH: ["S138Level 1-Match"] --
["S138Level 2-Match"] --
["S138Level 3-Match"]
Crosswords: ["S138Level 1 C/W"] --
["S138Level 2 C/W"] --
["S138Level 3 C/W"]
Find the Words: ["S138Level 1 WF"] --
["S138Level 2 WF"] --
["S138Level 3 WF"]
Is It True or False?: ["S138Level 1 T/F"] --
["S138Level 2 T/F"] --
["S138Level 3 T/F"]
Synonym/Antonym Encounters: [S138Level 1-Syn/Ant] -- [S138Level 2-Syn/Ant] -- [S138Level 3-Syn/Ant]
Contextual Stories: ["S138Level 1 Story"] --
["S138Level 2 Story"] --
["S138Level 3 Story"]
Return to interactive puzzles at:
["S138 Level 1"] --
["S138 Level 2"] --
["S138 Level 3"]
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