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Why the dinosaurs died out
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Follow a cause-and-effect explanation in a lecture.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- asteroid
- A large rock that travels through space.
- extinction
- When a kind of animal or plant no longer exists.
- ancestor
- An animal or person from long ago from whom others come.
Answer key
- Most scientists believe a huge asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.The stress in “extinction” is on “tinc”.
- It struck the Earth near what is now Mexico.“Struck” is the past of “strike”.
- The impact threw dust into the sky and blocked sunlight for years.The -ed of “blocked” is a t sound.
- Plants died, and the animals that ate them soon followed.“Followed” here means also died.
- However, some smaller species survived, including the ancestors of birds.The stress in “ancestors” is on “an”.