Comprehension Questions: Carnivorous Plants

How do pitcher plants trap their prey? Explain in your own words.

• Fly lands on the pitcher plant to eat, but

  slips into a pit filled with digestive fluids and is eaten.

• Bugs would fall into the pitcher-plant and digestive juices at the bottom of the Pitcher plant would digest the bug.

• Pitcher plants consume their prey by closing their flaps.

What can you infer about the Venus Flytrap from this text?

• The Venus flytrap is slow in catching its prey.

• The Venus Flytrap is very cunning.

• The Venus flytrap is swift in catching its prey.

Which word in paragraph 4 has the same meaning as “dangerous”

• Smother

• Mucilage

• Treacherous

• Escape

Name some difficulties in keeping carnivorous plants at home.

• They cannot adapt to their environments, they depend on delicate environments and cannot thrive in rich soil.

• They can survive in barren soil.

• They are hard to keep at home.

What does “object of their desire” refer to?

• It refers to the bugs’ intention to commit suicide.

• It refers to the sweet sap.

• It refers to the bugs wanting to take a break from flying