He Listens to Whales

Where does Joe Mobley live?

• Near the island of Jamaica
• Near the island of America
• Near the  island of Hawaii
• Near the island of Cuba

What does he study?

• The peculiar songs of birds
• The sounds of whales
• the bark of dogs 
• the morning song of the rooster

What three things do we learn from the first paragraph?

• Wales bark like dogs
• whales are enormous animals
• Whales sing when hungry, hanging out and mating.
• Both females and males whales talk to each other all the time

In the summer next to his home, what were the whales eating?

• Crabs and lobsters
• Sealions and turtles
• small fish and shrimp
• Sailors lost at sea

What key word is used to generalize found in paragraph 2?

• They "all" eat during the summer
• They "almost never" eat during the winter
• They "all" eat during the summer and "almost never" eat during the winter.
• They scope "lots of" food

Where does Joe Mobley go to hear the whales talk to each other?

• Far from his home in Australia
• Far from his home in Maui
• Close to his home in Maui
• He travels to New York city and listen to fish in the Hutson River

What is a difference between the sound of female and male humpbacks?

• Females use higher pitch sounds
• Males use deep base sounds only
• Both talk only in the winter when food is scarce
• Males make a clicking, creaking, roaring and whining sounds

How does Joe Mobley describe the sounds of humpback whales?

• Lovely and sweet
• beautiful and loud
• Scary and awful
• high and off tune

How does Joe describe the humpbacks songs?

• Never the same tune is heard twice
• They sing different songs because of geographical locations
• Their songs are short and sweet
• Their songs can last up to twenty hours 

Joe Mobley is the author of this article.

• No, his wife wrote the article
• Yes, he loves to write articles about himself
• No, Ranger Rick and E. Shan Correa wrote this article
• No, the author is not mentioned in this article.