Owls

What is the smallest owl?

• The owlet
• The North American Gray Owl
• Hoot Owl
• The Elf Owl

Why did the author write this article?

• To tell a funny story about owls hunting at night
• To persuade you to like owls and their cool features
• To inform you about owls' charactiristics and features
• To teach you how to find owls at night

Why do owls have eyes in the front of theri heads?

• So they can see how far an animal is.
• So they can't move their eyes.
• So the can look backwards.
• So they can help them see in the dark.

Why do they have a circle of feathers around its eyes?

• Because their eyes are really big
• Because its scares predators away
• Because it sends sounds into the owl's ears
• Because it makes them look attractive to people

What is in the pellet owls spit up?

• a live animal that the owl couldn't fit in its mouth
• extra grass it ate 
• food for its owlets
• fur and bones from eating an animal whole

What does the word perch mean?

• Lay down on the floor
• Swim in a lake
• Hunt for food
• Sit on a high place

Which sentence would the author agree with?

• Owls are scary because they fly at night.
• Owls have fascinating features.
• Owls are mean because they eat animals whole.
• Owls are not very friendly and people don't like them.

Where do owls live?

• in nests they made themselves
• in old nests, holes in trees, and ditches
• in a bird house
• they live only in trees

What do owls eat?

• people
• only small bugs
• only snakes
• snakes, small mammals, insects, and other birds

How does an owl kill its' prey?

• by using its beak and stabbing it
• by crushing it with its claws and tearing it with its beak
• by using its claws to crush it
• by capturing it and starving it