Unit 3 week 3

Unit 3 week 3

Open Ended

What do you think this book will be about?

Multiple Choice

What is the topic of this interview?

• the ocean

• Dr. Tierney Thy's work with sunfish

• What its like to live underwater

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

• Tierney researches sunfish to learn more about the ocean ecosystem

• Tierney uses different technologies

• The sunfish is a big animal that swims in the ocean.

Multiple Choice

Why is Tierney interested in the sunfish's body shape?

• She wants to be able to paint it and needs to have a better understanding of how it looks.

• She wants to know how its odd shape helps it move.

• She wants to catch it so she can cook it for her family.

Multiple Select

What's special about the sunfish?

• odd body shape

• it likes one direction

• its hard beak like mouth

• It has two eyes

Multiple Select

What are the sunfish's three records?

• It swims the farthest of all fish

• its weight increases as it grows more than any other vertebrate

• it is the heaviest boniest fish

• it produces more eggs than any other vertebrate

Multiple Select

What information does the chart information compare?

• an animals height and how far they swim

• what sea animals eat and how much they weigh

• average lengths and weights of different sea animals

Multiple Choice

Why does the diagram only include a small sunfish?

• They couldn't find a picture of a large one.

• Sunfish are only small

• A large sunfish's size protects them from predators so a sea lion is only able to eat a small sunfish.

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the last two pages?

• How sunfish fit into the ocean food web by being a predator and prey

• What sunfish like to eat

• Jellyfish can sting humans

Multiple Choice

Why would a decrease in zooplankton affect what people eat?

• People love to eat zooplankton and if there was none then people would have none to eat

• If there were fewer zooplankton, there would be less food for bigger fish and fewer fish for people to eat

• It wouldn't affect them because people don't eat zooplankton.

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the last page?

• technology helps scientists study sunfish

• sunfish love one direction

• sunfish live underwater

Multiple Select

Two opinions Tierney has about sunfish are

• sunfish are boring

• sunfish can help us understand the ocean

• sunfish may be considered very important fish some day

• sunfish are the worst fish in the ocean

Multiple Choice

Why are those opinions

• they are true

• they can not be proven