Animal Adaptations

Part A: What is the text structure of the passage Animal Adaptations? (R.2.1)

• Ⓐ Sequence

• Ⓑ Description

• Ⓒ Chronological

• Ⓓ Problem & Solution  

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Part B: 

Select one explanation that supports your response to Part A. (R.2.1)

(Part A: Description)

• Ⓐ The text compares how alligators and caribou hunt for food. 

• Ⓑ The text provides the order of events in which alligators hunt their prey.

• Ⓒ The text describes the unique ways that animals survive in their habitats.

• Ⓓ The text explains the problem that phasmids have with disappearing from sight.

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How does the photograph and caption at the top of page 128 contribute to the meaning in the passage?  (R.2.1)

• ⒶIt contributes by showing the caribou’s four stomach chambers.  

• Ⓑ It contributes by showing how the caribou weighs over 500 pounds

• Ⓒ It contributes by showing how the caribou gets the lichen off of the tree.

• Ⓓ It contributes by showing how the caribou migrates south to avoid harsh temperatures.

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Part A: What is the central idea of Animal Adaptations?  (R.2.2)

• Ⓐ Adaptations help animals to stay safe from predators.

• Ⓑ Adaptations help animals survive the cold and dry places.

• Ⓒ Animals have special traits that allow them to survive. 

• Ⓓ Animals can live in extremely cold places or extremely dry places. 

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5. Part B: Which piece of evidence from the passage supports your response to Part A (Animals have special traits that allow them to survive.)

• Ⓐ  A phasmid is called a walking stick because it looks like a stick with legs. 

• Ⓑ These insects can change colors to really blend in with their surroundings.

•  Ⓒ Many animals take their chances and revisit the alligator hole when they need water

•  Ⓓ Imagine living in a place where the average annual temperature is an extraordinary 10° to 20° F.

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Read this sentence from the passage:

In Florida’s vast Everglades ecosystem, the dry season is brutal for many plants and animals.

What does brutal mean as it is used in the sentence? (V.1.3)

• Ⓐ quite mild

• Ⓑ very difficult

•  Ⓒ somewhat rude

• Ⓓ extremely easy

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Select two details that would be included in a summary of the text. (R.3.2b)

• Ⓐ Phasmids can change colors to blend in and this keeps their predators from being able to see them. 

• Ⓑ Caribou live in the Arctic tundra of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia in very cold temperatures.

• Ⓒ When the alligators make holes, plants are able to grow there and animals will visit these holes also.   

• Ⓓ Caribou eat over six pounds of lichen every single day and lichen can grow in extreme temperatures. 

• Ⓔ Caribou are able to live in cold places because they have layers of fur and fat that keeps them warm.

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