Tracking Monsters: Informational Text

Front

Which text feature on page 334 best introduces the main idea of the text? Options: photo, side bar, heading, italicized words

Back

heading

Front

On page 335, which detail helps the reader understand the relationship between the "trackers" and the "monsters"? Options:

The beeps are getting louder. That means she's nearby. It's a Gila monster.

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Being careful to avoid the prickly pear and fish hook cacti, he sets down his gear near a hump of granite.

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The beeping box and the antennae are radio telemetry instruments.

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The sun-hatted hikers circle the big rock and begin inspecting its crevices and cracks.

Back

The beeps are getting louder. That means she's nearby. It's a Gila monster.

Front

On page 336, which detail develops a central idea presented earlier in the text? Options: A large adult lizard may eat only a few times a year. They're nocturnal much of the year and spend a lot of their time in underground burrows. Gila monsters are big lizards, the only other remaining "monster lizard" species is the beaded lizard. Gila monsters make their homes in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Back

Gila monsters are big lizards, the only other remaining "monster lizard" species is the beaded lizard.

Front

On page 338, which detail in the text supports the heading "Warning!"?

Options:

They have venom glands in their lower jaw.

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While Gila monsters look tough, they aren't very aggressive and don't go after people.

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Gila monsters were the first protected reptile in Arizona.

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There's no antivenom treatment.

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They have venom glands in their lower jaw.

Front

Identify the details that help the reader understand the concept shown in the image on page 339. Options: During spring and early summer, when males are out looking for mates, they will wander more than females, generally. Kevin's team has implanted tiny transmitters inside eight different Gilas. As she snoozes undisturbed in her burrow, they write down the lizard's GPS position. Is Gila #291 looking for a place to spend the winter?

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Kevin's team has implanted tiny transmitters inside eight different Gilas.

Front

Which detail supports the text features found on page 340?

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The beeping radio inside the tracked Gila monster also estimates its body temperature. The warmer the body temperature, the faster the radio beeps.

Front

What do the text features found on page 341 help the reader understand?

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The hikers are volunteers taking part in BioBlitz, a twenty-four-hour scientific inventory of every species in Saguaro National Park.

Front

Context clues on page 342 to define the word microchip?

Back

...looks like a metal grain of rice. It's the kind of ID...

Front

Which sentence from page 343 helps the reader understand how researchers collect data about Gila monsters?

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Kevin puts the softer end of the plastic tool on the lizard's closed mouth-- and gives it a nudge.

Front

What is the author's purpose for writing this text?

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To give information about Gila monsters and to persuade others that they are worth studying and protecting.