SMES Winter is Coming

The following animals are examples of part-time sleepers?

• raccoons, chipmunks, and bats

• opossums, skunks, and chipmunks

• skunks, raccoons, and woodchucks

• raccoons, opossums, and skunks

According to the article, some animals migrate in order to

• find food more easily

• keep from freezing to death

• raise their young

• protect themselves from danger

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Based on the article, which of the following animals would you expect to migrate when winter comes?

• scorpions

• jellyfish

• butterflies

• elephants

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Read these sentences from the passage: "Some animals go to safe places during the coldest parts of the winter to sleep. Those animals are part-time sleepers. They go into dens, logs, and other places."

Based on the text, the word dens means

• fields

• lakes

• deserts

• caves

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The primary purpose of this article is

• to explain why animals hibernate during the winter

• to show that some animals are more creative than others

• to suggest that humans have a lot to learn from animals when it comes to staying warm

• to describe how various animals spend the winter

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The question below is an incomplete sentence. Choose the word that best completes the sentence.

Chipmunks sleep all winter long, _______ opossums sometimes wake up to look for food. A.

• but

• especially

• so

• because

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