WR News Smarts Issue #16
Write in the correct answers for each. Then write the page you found the answer in and the headline of the story.

1. What percentage of students between the ages of 4 and 14 own portable video game systems?

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I found this answer on page ______

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2. Name two factors that might wipe out ocean life?

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3. How many orangutans live in the wild?

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4. Where did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have a Dream” speech?

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I found this answer on page ______

Under the headline ____________________________________

 
5. In what year did the Montgomery bus boycott begin?

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6. About how many pounds of fish and krill can a humpback whale eat each day?

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7. How many “words” have scientists identified in the humpback whales’ song?

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8. How many Olympic medals has Michelle Kwan won?

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Vocabulary Challenge!
Match each new word below with its definition.

____1.global  warming           ____ 2. ecosystem ____ 3. entrenched ____ 4. segregate ____ 5. boycott ____ 6. civil rights ____ 7. migrate ____ 8. krill ____ 9. baleen ____ 10. flukes ____ 11. diplomat

A. small, shrimplike creatures B. a person who represents his or her country abroad C. personal rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens for freedom and equal treatment under the Constitution D. the rise in Earth’s temperature E. established F. to move from one place to another G. a community of plants and animals that work together as a unit to live H. plates inside a humpback whale's mouth that filter food from water I. a humpback whale's tail fins J. refuse to use K. to separate by race or ethnicity

 Get Writing!
Imagine you are a tour guide at the future Dr. Martin Luther King memorial in Washington D.C. Write the speech that you would give to visitors telling Dr. King’s story and explaining why his legacy is important. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




 



 
Answer Key:
1. 41
found on page 3, Game Time

2. overfishing, pollution
found on page 2, No More Seafood?

3. No more than 60,000
found on page 2, Picture of the Week

4. Washington D.C. (at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall)
found on page 4 or 5, In Memory of Dr. King or A Look Back at King's Life

5. 1955
found on page 4 or 5, A Look Back at King's Life or In Memory of Dr. King 

6. 2,000 to 9,000
found on page 6, Humpback Whale Facts

7. 622
found on page 6, Whale Watch (Get Writing!)

8. 2
found on page 7, Champ on A Mission


Vocabulary Challenge!
1. D
2. G
3. E
4. K
5. J
6. C
7. F
8. A
9. H
10. I
11. B
 

Get Writing!
Answers will vary, but we would love to read students’ stories!
You can send them to edition4@weeklyreader.com