The Journey

Migrating locusts may be frightening because-

• they have a very strong, sour smell

• when they travel together their moving wings sound like thunder

• they turn a scary color

• they eat humans

Read the sentences from page 208. Their bodies will turn from light green to dark yellow or red. Their antennae will grow short rather than long. These lines help the reader -

• visualize the changes that grasshoppers go through before migrating

• visualize the life cycle of a locust

• understand why locusts migrate

• understand why locusts travel in swarms

Which of the following does not provide an example of how locusts may hurt people?

• Locusts eat all of the plants in one area.

• Locusts eat plants people use as their own food.

• Locusts leave the gardens empty of vegetation.

• Locusts swarms make a thunderous noise.

How are locusts swarms different today tan they were 2,000 years ago?

• They cause highway car accidents.

• The locusts make the sky as dark as night, making airplane pilots have a hard time flying.

• They are much smaller in size.

• They do not travel in swarms anymore.

Grasshoppers who have plenty of food behave differently than grasshoppers with little food because -

• grasshoppers with plenty of food stay in the same place.

• grasshoppers with plenty of food change their body features often.

• grasshoppers with little food will die first.

• grasshoppers with little food camouflage in order to find more food.

Whales are able to stay alive without eating for long periods due to-

• They use echolocation while migrating

• They use food stored in their bodies called blubber

• They are great at taking of food

• They save pieces of shrimp in their baleen

Which of the following statement provides an example of why gray whales migrate?

• Gray whales migrate to search for mating partners.

• Gray whales migrate to find food in the warmer waters of the south.

• Gray whales migrate to have babies in the warmer waters of the south.

• Gray whales migrate to provide people with excitement.

Gray whales spend most of their time alone while -

• migrating to the south

• migrating to the Artic

• searching for warmer waters

• searching for food

The author most likely wrote the paragraphs in page 219 to -

• explain the migration pattern gray whales follow

• provide the reader with possible theories about how the gray whales are able to find Arctic waters

• describe the meaning of echolocation

• to inform the reader about the amount of miles the gray whales migrate

Which of the following statements does not provide the reader with a similarity between locusts and gray whales.

• Locusts and gray whales migrate to a different location.

• Locusts and gray whales return to the same place where they started.

• Locusts and gray whales travel in groups.

• Locusts and gray whales migrate to find food.