Central Idea Practice

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea in this passage?

• how glaciers are formed

• where the biggest glaciers in the world are found

• how glaciers were first discovered

Multiple Choice

Glaciers are formed from

• melted snow

• ice crystals that join together after being packed down by heavy layers of snow

• parts of the ocean that have frozen and broken away

Multiple Choice

When the ice crystals deep inside a glacier begin to slide over each other,

• the glacier moves

• they join together to form a glacier

• they push snow crystals under the surface together, forming pellets

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea in this passage?

• what colors are in a rainbow

• where rainbows come from

• where you might see rainbows

Multiple Choice

Light from the Sun is

• a combination of colors

• white

• yellow

Multiple Choice

Rainbows appear when

• Sunlight is broken up by raindrops in the sky

• there is no light

• clouds separate the Sun's light from raindrops in the sky

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea of this passage?

• how pelicans use their pouches to catch fish

• where pelicans live

• what a pelican eats

Multiple Choice

Why does a mother pelican send partly digested food from her stomach back into her pouch?

• there isn't enough room in her stomach to fully digest all of her food

• so that she can empty out the food that her body doesn't need

• so that her babies can feed from the pouch

Multiple Choice

The pelican's pouch can stretch to hold _____ of fish.

• thirty pounds

• fifteen pounds

• twelve quarts

Poll

Complete this question by yourself! This is your honest opinion so I can help you if you need it! :)

Now that you have practiced central idea, how are you feeling about the skill?

• I need more practice! I'm so confused!

• I think I have it, but I would like more practice

• I've got this! That was easy!