Video Worksheet: National Geographic: 30 Years of Specials, Part I
1. The water cycle makes this world unique in the ____________ __________, and perhaps beyond. 2. Africa’s ____________ desert is one of the harshest environments on Earth. 3. The spider can defend itself with its powerful ________________. The wasp can attack with its sting. 4. True or False: The spider ends up getting away by just rolling away from the wasp. (TRUE/FALSE) 5. What did the lizard do to evade the snake that was threatening it? It _________________________ ____________. 6. The elephant calf wandered away from his family into the company of ___________. 7. The Okefenokee Swamp is located on the border of these two states: Georgia and _________________. 8. The woodpecker has a unique defense: it causes the pine trees to emit ( resin / syrup / dust /water), which repels the snake. 9. Where did the lions go when attacked by the hyenas? ___________________ 10. What animals stole the tiger’s deer carcass and pulled it into deeper water?______________________ 11. The actual mating that takes place between two __________ is so brief that it is almost invisible. 12. Young water monkeys keep swimming in and out of their father’s ____________. 13. Who gets the best part of the kill when lions feed: (CUBS or ADULTS) 14. Lewis Leakey did field work that proved that Africa was the cradle of ______________. 15. Lewis Leakey scoured Tanzania looking for evidence for his theory, and then eventually settled at the Olduvai (VALLEY / GORGE / MOUNTAINS / SEVEN‐ELEVEN ). 16. Richard Leakey yielded the morst complete skeleton of an early human ancestor ever found. The skeleton was that of a boy who was about ________ years old when he died. 17. What happened in the year A.D. 79? Mount _________ exploded, burying the people of Hurculaneum.
18. Stalingrad was renamed ( LENINGRAD / REAGANGRAD / COLLEGEGRAD / VOLGOGRAD). 19. Where do the Baka people live? (CONGO / ANGOLA / CAMEROON / MAURITIUS ). 20. What part of the Balinese dancer gets painted with Pepsodent toothpaste? ( FACE / TOES / KNEES / TEETH ) 21. What aggressive species has caused such destruction in the rainforest?___________________________ 22. Jane Goodall observed that a stem of _______ was the first example of tool use among non‐humans.
