Sea Otter Pups

Sea Otter Pups

Meet a sea otter pup

• A mother sea otter and her pup are floating in the ocean. The mother otter is resting on her back. The little pup is cuddle up on his mother’s belly, just above the water.

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What is the heading of the text?

• mother sea otter

• Meet a Sea Otter Pup

• sea otter pup

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What captions were shown in the picture or image?

• mother sea otter

• father sea otter

• sea otter pup

What is a sea otter?

• Sea otters are animals that live in the ocean. They are about as big as a medium- size dog. Sea otters have very thick fur. The fur helps keep the otter’s body warm and dry in the cold water.

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What is the heading of the text?

• Where is s a sea otter?

• What is a sea otter?

• Why save sea otters?

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Where do sea otters live?

• in the ground

• in the ocean

• in the desert

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How big is a sea otter?

• about as big as a dog

• about as a big as a bear

• about as big as a whale

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What does the sea otter's fur do?

• the fur smells and scares away predators in the water

• it does nothing the hair just keeps growing because no one cuts it

• helps keep the otter’s body warm and dry in the cold water.

Where do sea otters live?

• 
  

  Although sea otters live

  in the ocean, they stay close to

  the shore. The yellow parts of

  this map show where sea

  otters live.

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What are the labels on page 40? Choose 2 answers

• shore

• sea

• sea otter pups

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What does the yellow on the map show or represent?

• a new island

• where sea otters live

• bad water

A newborn pup

• A mother sea otter gives birth in the ocean to just one pup at a time. After the pup is born, she places it on her chest to keep it warm. Then she feeds it milk from her body. A pup drinks its mother’s milk until it’s about four to six months old.

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What text feature was not shown?

• heading

• map

• label

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What are the labels on page 41?

• mother sea otter

• baby sea otter

• one week old pup

Learning to swim

• A newborn sea otter cannot swim, but it can float really well. It floats on top of the water like a beach ball! The mother sea otter gives her pup swimming lessons. By the time it is about

  14 weeks old, the pup is able to swim and dive.

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• floating mother sea otter

• floating pup

• learning to swim

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Who teaches the sea otter pup to swim?

• father sea otter

• mother sea otter

• sea otter pup itself

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How old is the sea otter pup when it learns how to swim?

• 5 weeks

• 14 weeks

• 9 weeks

Sea otter food

• Sea otter adults and pups eat crabs, clams, and other shellfish. The mother otter dives under the water to hunt for food. She teaches the pup how to dive and find shellfish, too.

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• mother otter

• shellfish

• sea otter food

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What labels were on page 43?

• mother otter

• pup

• crab

• clam

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How do sea otters get their food?

• The sea otter eats food from the surfaces.

• Mother sea otter dives under water to hunt food.

• Sea otter pup eats food on the surface of the water.

Time for dinner

• Once the mother sea otter finds

  a clam, she swims back up to the

  water’s surface. She also brings a

  rock with her and lays it on her

  belly. Then she smashes the clam

  onto the rock to open its shell.

  The mother otter and the pup

  share the clam meat.

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"She swims back up to the

water’s surface. " Which statement best describes surface?

• top

• bottom

• inside

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What tool does the mother sea otter use to prepare her food?

• knife

• rock

• nail

Goodnight

• When it is time to sleep, an adult sea otter sometimes wraps seaweed around its body. The seaweed, called kelp,

  is attached to the ocean floor. It holds the otter in one place. This keeps the waves from carrying the otter out into

  the ocean. Sometimes the mother otter also wraps kelp around the pup as it sleeps on her chest.

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How does the sea otter stay in one place when it is sleeping?

• the sea otter leans its back on a rock to stay in one place

• seaweed wrapped around the sea otter holds it in place

• the sea otters make a chain to each other

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"An adult sea otter sometimes wraps seaweed around its body. " Which statement best describes wraps?

• covers

• tapes

• melts

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"The seaweed, called kelp,

is attached to the ocean floor. It holds the otter in one place." Which statement best describes attached?

• dettached

• connected

• separated

Growing Up

• When a pup is between 6 and

  12 months old, it leaves its mother. It

  knows how to dive underwater to hunt for food. It can use rocks to crack open shellfish. The pup is now ready to begin its grown-up life!

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"It can use rocks to crack open shellfish." Which statement best describes crack?

• line

• split

• force

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What does a sea otter need to learn to do before they leave their mom?

• learn to swim and dive to hunt for food

• learn to crack shells open with rocks

• learn to dance in the water

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What is the authors purpose?

• to entertain

• to inform

• to persuade