M2 U1 L1: Building Background Knowledge

M2 U1 L1: Building Background Knowledge

What are Animal Defense Mechanisms?

Multiple Choice

Why do animals have defense mechanisms?

• Protect themselves

• Find their family

• Jump

• To climb trees

Multiple Choice

An animal that is hunted for food.

• predator
• prey
• consumer
• decomposer

Multiple Choice

Horns, claws, quills, and stingers are physical adaptations that are used for:

• defense

• movement

• food gathering

• obtaining resources

Open Ended

What does it mean to infer?

Open Ended

How can writers use knowledge from their research to inform and entertain?

Open Ended

What do you notice about the research notebook?

Open Ended

What do you wonder about the research notebook?

Multiple Choice

Which detail from the text supports the answer in Part A?

• “Box turtles have hinged plastrons …”
• “A turtle can stay inside its shell for hours, waiting for a predator to give up.”
• “… pulls its head and its muscular foot inside the shell.”
• “… have shells made of eight plates.”

Multiple Choice

How does the box turtle use its shell to protect itself?Read “Shells” on pages 46 – 49 of Animal Behavior: Animal Defenses by Christina Wilsdon and answer the questions below:

• It uses the lower section of its shell to close the opening in its shell.
• It pulls its head into the shell and folds its legs in front to form a shield.
• It seals the shell’s opening with a hard plate on the end of the foot.
• It rolls up into an armor-plated ball.

Multiple Choice

Why do animals have defense mechanisms?

• Protect themselves

• Find their family

• Jump

• To climb trees