Bonnethead Shark-REVIEW WEEK 2

Multiple Choice

Why are scientists surprised that bonnethead sharks eat plants?

• because they thought that sharks lived in seagrass.

• because they thought that sharks were carnivores.

• because they thought that sharks did not have enough food.

• because they thought that seagrass could not grow in the ocean.

Multiple Choice

What detail in the article shows that eating seagrass helped the sharks?

• They hunt for crabs in the seagrass there.

• They ded the sharks mainly seagrass.

• Most of their nutrients came from plants.

• It helps keep the air and water clean.

Multiple Choice

What is the article MAINLY about?

• What scientists learned about the diets of bonnethead sharks.

• how seagrass meadows keep the water and the air clean

• what scientists are doing to save seagrass meadows

• how bonnethead sharks liek toe eat crabs in the seagrass

Multiple Choice

Read the following paragraph from the section "Seagrass Is Important."

Many fish and shellfish live in the seagrass meadows. Sharks and other sea carnivores eat these other creatures.

What is the focus of this paragraph?

• how scienctist plan to protect seagrass

• how seagrass meadows clean the ocean

• how some animals need the seagrass meadows

• how bonnethead sharks like eating seagrass