Fill-in-the-blank worksheet for learning collective nouns with a word bank.

Final Answer:
1. A bunch of birds
2. A flock of ships
3. A herd of cattle
4. A pack of wolves
5. A swarm of bees
6. An army of ants
7. A school of hay *(Note: This appears to be a typo in the original—“hay” doesn’t go with “school”; likely meant “fish”, but based on the word bank, “school” is paired with fish later. Let’s re-evaluate using only the given word bank and standard collective nouns.)*

Wait — let’s carefully match each blank using only the words provided in the box:

Word bank:
army, chest, range, bunch, flock, fleet, band, herd, deck, forest, pack, bale, bowl, swarm, pride, bed, stack, school, gaggle, choir

Standard collective nouns (matching common usage + word bank):

1. A bunch of birds → ✘ Not standard. Birds = flock
But “flock” is in the list, and #11 is “grapes” — grapes = bunch
So we must assign based on *correct collective noun* AND *available words*.

Let’s go one by one with correct collective nouns, then verify they’re in the word bank:

1. birds → flock
2. ships → fleet
3. cattle → herd
4. wolves → pack
5. bees → swarm
6. ants → army
7. hay → ??? Hay is not typically used with a collective noun like this. Likely a mistake — but “bale” of hay is standard. And bale is in the word bank. So: bale of hay
8. fish → school
9. cards → deck (a deck of cards)
10. papers → stack
11. grapes → bunch
12. lions → pride
13. rice → bowl? No — rice is uncountable; but “bowl of rice” is a container phrase, not a true collective noun. However, among options, bowl fits best for rice (as in “a bowl of rice”). But collective noun for rice isn’t standard — maybe it's a trick. Let’s check other options.
Wait — “range” of mountains? Yes! #19 is mountains → range
#13 rice — perhaps bowl is intended (common phrase).
14. oysters → bed (a bed of oysters — yes, marine biology uses “bed”)
15. musicians → band or choir; musicians generally = band (unless vocal), and band is in list.
16. geese → gaggle
17. drawers → chest (a chest of drawers)
18. singers → choir
19. mountains → range
20. trees → forest

Now verify all 20 use only words from the bank, no repeats:

Used so far:
- flock (1)
- fleet (2)
- herd (3)
- pack (4)
- swarm (5)
- army (6)
- bale (7) ✔ hay → bale
- school (8)
- deck (9)
- stack (10)
- bunch (11)
- pride (12)
- bowl (13) — questionable, but only fit left? Wait, let’s list remaining words in bank:

Bank: army, chest, range, bunch, flock, fleet, band, herd, deck, forest, pack, bale, bowl, swarm, pride, bed, stack, school, gaggle, choir
That’s 20 words — perfect, one per blank.

Assign uniquely:

1. birds → flock
2. ships → fleet
3. cattle → herd
4. wolves → pack
5. bees → swarm
6. ants → army
7. hay → bale
8. fish → school
9. cards → deck
10. papers → stack
11. grapes → bunch
12. lions → pride
13. rice → bowl *(accepted as “a bowl of rice” — phrasal, but matches word bank)*
14. oysters → bed
15. musicians → band
16. geese → gaggle
17. drawers → chest
18. singers → choir
19. mountains → range
20. trees → forest

All 20 words used exactly once. This is the intended answer.

Final Answer:
1. flock
2. fleet
3. herd
4. pack
5. swarm
6. army
7. bale
8. school
9. deck
10. stack
11. bunch
12. pride
13. bowl
14. bed
15. band
16. gaggle
17. chest
18. choir
19. range
20. forest