Danger at Dinosaur Camp

Danger at Dinosaur Camp

A Detective Zack Story

Author: Jerry D. Thomas

Readability Level 3.9

Word count: 26,712

128 pages

CONTENT

1. The dinosaurs could not have lived where they were buried because ______.

a. it was too dry / b. the rocks there were not that old
c. there was not enough food there / d. there were no animal tracks

2. Footprints only last when the ground is ______when the print is made.

a. black / b. hardy / c. sandy / d. wet

3. When Zack set a trap he found ______in his parents’ tent.

a. bears / b. his mother / c. pigeons / d. teenagers

4. Buddy was stealing batteries to ______.

a. power a mechanical dinosaur / b. run his game boy
c. run his underground fence / d. sell to the campers

5. The “dinosaurs” people saw in the canyon were really ______.

a. animated photographs / b. elephants / c. ostriches / d. none of these

VOCABULARY

6. ______studies animal bones.

a. An animalogist / b. A botanist / c. A fossilologist / d. A paleontologist

7. Dinosaur and human tracks are not usually found together because ______.

a. dinosaurs lived and died long before humans arrived
b. humans were riding on the dinosaurs to try to escape the flood
c. humans were afraid of dinosaurs
d. we don't know why

8. Most dinosaur bones that are found are ______.

a. all jumbled out of order / b. attached to a complete skeleton
c. bright colors / d. thin but strong

9. A ______is a big hole dug in the rock.

a. diplodocus / b. petroglyph / c. quarry / d. vein

10. A flash flood is a flood that ______.

a. exposes new rock / b. flashes lightning
c. happens quickly / d. none of these

Answers: 1-c 2-d 3-b 4-c 5-d 6-d 7-d 8-a 9-c 10-c