Encore II Level 2.5: "Mammoth Site"

Story 17, Tracks 1– 4 Mammoth Site Spanish, Track 5

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site A site is the place or location of something. sinkhole A sinkhole is an opening in the ground. A sinkhole is often deep and filled with water. museum A museum is a place that has beautiful, interesting, or unusual things to look at. fossils Fossils are what is left of plants and animals that have been dead a very long time.

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The sinkhole was about 60 feet 79 they? They were Ice Age animals.

6 deep. It was filled with warm water 85 Many of them were mammoths.

13 and plants. Large animals walked 90 Mammoths were huge mammals.

18 into the sinkhole to eat and drink. 94 They looked a little bit like

25 The animals could not get out, so 100 elephants. They had big trunks and

32 they died there. The sinkhole filled 106 long tusks. But mammoths died out

38 with mud and dried up. The animals 112 thousands of years ago.

45 stayed buried for about 26,000 years. 116 The site where people found the

51 In 1974, some workers uncovered 122 mammoths is now part of a museum.

56 the animals. Scientists came to the 129 Many people visit the Mammoth Site

62 site to study them. The scientists 135 each year. They come to see the

68 learned many things about the 142 fossils of these extinct animals. This

73 animals. 148 museum is in Hot Springs, South

74 What kind of animals were 154 Dakota.

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1. What is the main idea of this story? 3. What does the word extinct mean in a. Many people visit the Mammoth this story? Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. a. long tusks b. Ice Age animals called mammoths b. uncovered died in a sinkhole that is now part c. died out of a museum. c. Animals that went into a sinkhole could not get out, so they died there.

2. About how long did the animals stay 4. Why did mammoths go to the buried? sinkhole? a. 1,974 years a. to get stuck in the mud b. 60 years b. to drink water and eat plants c. 26,000 years c. to see if elephants were there

5. How are elephants of today like the mammoths of long ago?

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