Exotic Paradise Response.

Purpose for reading: we are learning to identify the features of an
informational text.

Text: Exotic Paradise

Put n, v or adj next to these words to show which are nouns, verbs, or adjectives. Then choose five of these words and explain their meaning in your own words.		Answer the questions below and record your answers for posting on your blog. Write in complete sentences. Try to use some of the rich vocabulary from the list.
N Continents ADJ Predatory N Mammals N Prehistory N Fossil V Pattered N Molar N Catalogue N Palaeontologist N Sediment N Palaeolake N Notion ADJ Archetypal V Evolved ADJ Complex ADJ Prolific Globally Predatory Bottleneck Complex Genus	ADJ Terrestrial N Vertebrates N Fragments ADJAncestral V Dwarfed V Unearthed ADJ Undisputed N Genus V Burrowing N Exodus V Recolonising ADJ Evolutionary ADJ Bottleneck N Hubs ADJ Globally	How long ago was the Mesozoic era? The Mesozoic era was 65 million years ago. Name three animals that lived in that time and three that did not. They were flamingos, penguins and asbills. Humans, chickens and dogs were not alive then. According to the article what happened to tropical plant species during the Pleistocene era? during the Pleistocene era all the tropical plants froze during this time. What new species arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand at the time of the Pleistocene ice ages? The ancestors of the Haast eagle, Takahe and the large laughing owl.	Explain, in your words, the theory behind the Gondwana supercontinent. You may need to research first. There used to be one supercontinent called Gondwana but shifting plates and erosion split it up and after a couple of million years the continents split further apart. Name three animals that have been discovered at Lake Manuherikia that we definitely do not have in Aotearoa/ New Zealand today. Giant bats, Moa and Tiny Kiwi. If Lake Taupo has an area of 616km², how big is Lake Manuherikia? Lake Manuherikia is 5544 km squared. Why are there so many gaps in our terrestrial fossil records? Complete the response to Informational Text as found in your literacy folder.
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Globally means world wide or all around the world.

Predatory means acts like a predator. If something is predatory
it acts like a predator and is mostly a predator.

A bottleneck is a place where two walls come close together forcing
animals together and sometimes smothering them.

Very complicating.

Genus is a type of genre of species.