Godzilla Worksheet - Answer Key
Part 1: Vocabulary – Answers
Gigantic: Extremely large or huge in size.
Paleontologist: A scientist who studies fossils and ancient creatures.
Fictional: Not real; invented for stories or movies.
Heart: An organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
Vessels: Tubes that carry blood in the body.
Locomotion: The ability to move from one place to another.
Impulse: A sudden urge or stimulus to act.
Nerve conduction: The process by which nerve signals are transmitted.
Basking: To lie in the sun, especially to absorb heat.
Mammalian: Relating to mammals, warm-blooded animals that give birth to live young.
Overheat: To become too hot, often to the point of causing damage.
Skeleton: The internal structure of bones in an animal's body.
Immense: Extremely large or great in size, amount, or degree.
Collapse: To fall down or break apart suddenly.
Survive: To continue to live or exist despite difficult conditions.
Reptile: A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that includes snakes, lizards, etc.
Core temperature: The internal body temperature of an organism.
Load: The amount of weight or pressure something is carrying.
Fossil: The preserved remains or traces of ancient life.
Sketch: A simple drawing or plan made to show the main features of something.
Part 2: Exercises – Answers
Exercise 1: Fill in the Blanks
Godzilla is a **fictional** creature that could never exist in real life.
The **heart** of a giant creature like Godzilla would need to be enormous.
A **paleontologist** studies fossils and ancient creatures.
For Godzilla to move, it would face **locomotion** problems.
Godzilla would need to spend hundreds of hours **basking** to keep warm.
Godzilla might overheat and **overheat** itself because of its massive size.
Godzilla’s **skeleton** would collapse under its immense weight.
Reptiles like Godzilla regulate their body temperature by **basking** in the sun.
Godzilla would need a large amount of **energy** to move its gigantic body.
Exercise 2: Multiple Choice Questions
What is the main reason Godzilla could not exist in real life?
a) Its heart would need to be too large
What would happen to Godzilla if it became warm-blooded?
a) It would overheat
What causes Godzilla’s skeleton to collapse?
b) Its bones cannot handle its immense weight
Exercise 3: Matching
1. **Gigantic** - E) Extremely large or huge.
2. **Locomotion** - A) The ability to move from one place to another.
3. **Reptile** - B) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal.
4. **Paleontologist** - C) A scientist who studies fossils.
5. **Overheat** - D) To become too hot, often causing damage.
Part 3: Writing – Answers
In summary, Godzilla is a fictional creature that could never exist in real life. Its size would
require an enormous heart and a large amount of energy. It would face difficulties in
moving due to its size, and it would need to spend hours basking in the sun to keep warm. If
Godzilla were warm-blooded, it would overheat. Its skeleton would collapse under its
immense weight, and it could not survive in real life.
Part 4: Dictation – Answers
Oh, what happened Kitty? Scary **Godzilla**! I know, but that's only in **movies**. What if
it appeared for real?
To find that out, let's answer a **monstrous** question: What if **Godzilla** was real? Let's
zoom in.
Ever since **Godzilla** first appeared in 1954, it has been getting bigger and bigger. In one
of its most recent movies, the monster was as tall as **119** meters.
Six times taller than the tallest animal ever to exist, that is, the **Poseidon**, which was
approximately **18** meters tall.
So this makes us wonder, what would happen if Godzilla suddenly emerged from the real
**ocean** and rocked our cities with its terrifying **roar**?
Well, according to paleontologist Mike Habib, there is no need to **worry**. A creature like
Godzilla could never exist in real life for many reasons.
Firstly, because of its gigantic size, its **heart** would need to be extremely large, filling
most of its chest.
For that huge heart to work, Godzilla would need an enormous amount of **energy**, which
is equivalent to the amount of energy a small power plant consumes in just one minute.
But for Godzilla, it would take more than a second for the nerve impulse to travel the full
length of its **body**.
Even though that sounds pretty fast, in reality, its nerve conduction velocity would be so
slow that it couldn't **move**.
Godzilla would need to spend hundreds of hours **basking** to keep warm.
But what if Godzilla was more **mammalian** like us? It wouldn't need to depend on the
sun because warm-blooded creatures generate their own body heat.
Unfortunately, this would cause another problem: it might overheat and **cook** itself
because its core temperature could reach **300** degrees.
Even if it overcame these challenges, its **skeleton** would collapse under its immense
weight of 990,000 tons.
Eventually, it would just collapse into a huge pile of **meat**.
