2. comprehension questions
- What are the redwoods called? Why do people view them as ancient survivors? (P1)
- What is the difference between sequoia and the coastal redwood? (P2)
- What is the name of the world's largest tree? How large is it? (P3)
- What is the feature of the coastal redwoods? How tall is this kind of tree? (P4)
- What is the tallest tree called? Who found it? Where is it? (P5)
- What is the crown? How can we reach it? How much do we know about it? (P6)
- How do the tallest tree like Hyperion get water? For how long can water travel from the root to the crown? (P7)
- What would happen if a large branch dies? (P8)
- Is there a tree which is 400 feet tall and has lived for 4,000 years? (P9)
3. phrases
- manage to (line 10)
- in the same forest as ... (line 14)
- adapt to (line 15)
- according to (line 20)
- Named Hyperion after ... (line 30)
- curious about (line 36)
- used to (line 39)
4. usage and grammar
- Ancient survivors in a world in which change can happen suddenly, these tall trees survived the fall of a giant meteor that left a hole that was miles wide in diameter and may have killed the last of the dinosaurs. (line 3)
- The coastal redwoods may not be as large as sequoias overall, ... (line 24)
- ..., their discovery took the title of world's tallest tree from a redwood named The Tall Tree, ... (line 31)
- One of the main scientific questions ... concerns water.
