SBAC Prep 5

Streams, stream banks, and the low lands around them provide important habitat for animals and plants that share the urban/suburban landscape with us.

What does the word habitat mean as it is used in the sentence?

Hint: What do streams, stream banks and low lands have in common?

• area

• environment

• shelter

• territory

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Instead it hits impervious surfaces like hard pavement and rooftops and has no chance to infiltrate the soil.

What is the meaning of the word impervious as it is used in the sentence?

Hint: What do hard pavement and rooftops have in common?

• affected

• cracked

• exposed

• resistant

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Based on the information in paragraph 8, what inference can be drawn about water movement in cities?

Hint: Natural channels easily become overwhelmed when a big storm hits.

• Natural waterways have disappeared.

• Natural waterways are overloaded with rainwater.

• There are fewer natural waterways now than in the past.

• Flooding is caused when man-made waterways overflow.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

As he sat on the grass and looked across the river, a dark hole in the bank opposite, just above the water's edge, caught his eye, and dreamily he fell to considering what a nice, snug dwelling-place it would make for an animal with few wants and fond of a bijou riverside residence, above flood level and remote from noise and dust.

What does the word remote mean as it is used in the sentence?

Hint: Use logic. Which word would fit the idea of being away from noise and dust on a river bank?

• bothered

• delayed

• isolated

• reserved

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Then he held up his fore-paw as the Mole stepped gingerly down.

What does the word gingerly mean as it is used in the sentence?

Hint: Use logic. Why would an animal hold up it's fore-paw when walking? How would they step on it?

• angrily

• carefully

• clumsily

• quickly

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4