Research Seabirds

Read the sentence from the passage.

"Seabirds are birds that have adapted to life within the marine enviornment."

What does the word adapted mean as it used in the sentence.

• A chosen due to their gentle manner

• changed in order to live in an ocean enviornment

• forced to live in harsh living conditions

• made to look like their surrondings

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Which statement from the passage best supports the answer to Part A (what does adapted mean)

• They are also known as marine birds

• Many seabirds, such as albatrisses and petrels, have long life spans.

• Seabirds have a special gland located near each eye that filters out excess salt from their blood into the nasal passages.

• At sine time in their lives, all seabirds must leave their ocean world and return to land to breed.

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CCSS.RI.4.4

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PART A Which statement provides the best explination of why so many seabirds are killed every year?

• Many seabirds are killed every year because of fishing nets and oil spills.

• Many seabirds are killed every year because no one care about protecting them

• Many seabirds are killed every year because there is not enough food to eat

• Many seabirds are killed every year because they are killed by predators.

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PART B

Which paragraph from the passage best supports the answer to PART A.

• paragraph 6

• paragraph 7

• paragraph 8

• paragraph 9

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The passage uses what type of orginazational structure?

• Chroological order

• compare and contrast order

• cause and effect order

• problem and solution order

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PART B

Which sentence from the passage supports Part A.

• In this passage, you will learn about albatrosses, storm petrels, gulls, and penguins.

• Most storm pretels are found in all of the earth's oceans

• Gulls breed and nest on every continent, including parts of Antartica

• Seabirds are alike in different ways, and they are also different in some ways.

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Read the sentence from the passage.

Seabirds are elusive and mysterious to most bird watchers because they are very different from more familiar songbirds and common backyard birds.

Which THREE defintions best defin the word elusive as it used in the sentence.

• hard to observe

• hard to study

• hard to find

• hard to forget

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

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According to the passag, which type of seabird is the smallest type of seabird?

• albatross

• gull

• storm petrel

• penquin

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According to the passage, in which three ways is a gull different from an albatross, a storm petrel, and a penquin?

• Gulls eat other things besides seafood, such as insects and earthworms

• Gulls are scavengers and eat things that could harm humans

• Gulls are not able to remove excess salt after eating seafood

• Gulls make a rain-like sound to sttract earthworms hidden under the ground

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Which two paragraphs support the answer to Part A

• paragraoh 10 and 11

• pargraphs 14 and 15

• pargraphs 12 amd 13

• paragraphs 9 and 10

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