Island of the Blue Dolphins: Ch. 1-5 Vocabulary Review

Question 1

What is another word for being chased?

Accepted Answer

pursued

Question 2

What is an old fashioned term for a measurement of about 3 miles?

Accepted Answer

league

Question 3

When something is carefully planned and measured out, such as a work schedule.

Accepted Answer

portioned

Question 4

When a leader makes a firm announcement, it is ________________.

Accepted Answer

decreed

Question 5

What is the flat area on top of a mountain?

Accepted Answer

a mesa

Question 6

A type of shellfish.

Accepted Answer

abalones

Question 7

What is a word that means the same as killed?

Accepted Answer

slain

Question 8

When something is tied into bundles or large wrapped packages.

Accepted Answer

bales

Question 9

What is a land form that is like a small valley with steep sides?

Accepted Answer

ravine

Question 10

What is the skin covered with fur called on an animal hunted by the Aleuts?

Accepted Answer

pelts

Question 11

What is it called when someone walked in a stiff or angry way?

Accepted Answer

stalked

Question 12

What is a type of sea plant?

Accepted Answer

kelp

Question 13

What is an exchange of words to try to come to an agreement or a negotiation?

Accepted Answer

parley

Question 14

Scattered about without organization.

Accepted Answer

strewn

Question 15

What are people who come from the islands near Alaska called?

Accepted Answer

Aleut

Question 16

When something has its growth slowed, such as a tree on a windy island.

Accepted Answer

stunted

Question 17

What is another word for using something with care not to waste it?

Accepted Answer

sparingly

Question 18

When something has stopped happening, we say that it has _________.

Accepted Answer

ceased

Question 19

To run away or back away from something, such as a fight.

Accepted Answer

retreat

Questions 19