A Home on the Prairie Vocabulary

What do you called a large, open grassland with very few trees.

• habitat

• grazers

• colonies

• prairie

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.4

What do you call the place where a plant or animal usually lives?

• habitat

• town

• house

• burrows

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.2.7

What do you call animals that feed on growing grasses?

• cows

• deer

• grazers

• dogs

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

What do you call holes or tunnels in the ground that are made by a small animal?

• dens

• caves

• nests

• burrows

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.2.7

What do you call groups of animals that live in one place?

• geese

• colonies

• habitat

• prairie

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1A

CCSS.RI.2.1

What is a synonym for the word bison?

• buffalo

• cow

• grazer

• deer

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

Which of the following is not a grazer?

• deer

• cow

• goat

• bee

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.2.7

Rattlesnakes have no enemies.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

What do rattlesnakes do as a warning to stay away?

• hide under a rock

• rattles its tail

• pretends to be dead

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.7

How did prairie dogs get their name?

• from their mothers

• they look like dogs

• from the loud barking noise they make

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1