2nd nine week review

What's that humming sound? Could it be hummingbird, the only bird capable of backward flight? Hummingbirds have many unique flight habits that distinguish them from other birds. Most birds flap their wings up and down to fly, but the hummingbird moves its wings forward and backward very rapidly in a figure eight pattern. This allows the hummingbird to hover in position, fly upside down, and move about very rapidly. And while other birds have to push off with their feet to begin flying, and work their ways up to their top speeds, the hummingbird can both start flying at maximum speed and stop flying instantaneously. After you've seen a hummingbird in flight, it's unlikely that you'll mistake them for another bird.

What is the central idea?

• Birds and hummingbirds are very different.

• Hummingbirds make a humming sound.

• The hummingbird fly in a totally unique and unusual way.

• Hummingbird wings fly in figure eight patterns.

What is the central idea of the passage?

Millions of acres of tropical rainforest have been destroyed. Many animals and people lose their homes when the rain forest is cut down. Today, people are destroying the forests so quickly that the animals are unable to adapt. Many of these animals, such as the leopard, need miles and miles of untouched rain forest in order to live. Furthermore, as more of the rainforest is destroyed, the risk of air pollution and loss of oxygen increases.

• Leopards are losing their homes.

• The destruction of the rain forest is harming humans and animals.

• Forest provide oxygen for humans and animals.

• The destruction of the rain forest is an interesting subject.

Authors present information to readers using a specific feature called ___ ____.

• text summaries

• text evidence

• text structure

• text dependent

This type of text structure uses signal words such as problem, issue, idea, causes, and leads to.

• problem and solution

• chronological order

• cause and effect

• description

This type of text structure represents the characteristics of a person, place, thing, or idea giving the reader a image in his or her mind.

• description

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

• chronological order

This type of text structure is the source of an issue that leads to the outcome.

• Sequencing

• description

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

To identify this type of text structure, ask yourself: is the events taking place in a certain order?

• description

• sequencing

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

This type of text structure is used to note the similarities and the differences in items.

• description

• sequencing

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing in the rain forests. Some people are trying to solve this issue. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. Groups are protesting the removal of trees from the rain forests where the chimpanzees live. People will need to work together to save the chimpanzees. Which choice correctly identifies the text structure?

• description

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

• chronological order

Making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is both easy and delicious. First, get out your materials (peanut butter, jelly, bread, and a knife). Second, spread peanut butter on one piece of bread and jelly on another. Third, combine the two halves so that the peanut butter and jelly mix. Then, enjoy you sandwich. Finally, clean up your mess.

• description

• sequencing

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast