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Read this sentence:

Working like a large funnel, these underpasses usually require a barricade or fence alongside the highway.

What synonym could replace funnel?

• Channel

• Net

• Road

• Space

Read this sentence: Florida panther, for example, has such a low population that each time one is killed on a highway, it is a catastrophic loss.

What does the phrase catastrophic loss mean in this context? (5 points)

• A terrible storm

• A dead panther

• A national emergency

• A great tragedy

Read this sentence:

These overpasses also connect habitats, so along with deer, the coyotes who hunt them can cross.

What does the word habitats means in this context? (5 points)

• Animals

• Ecosystems

• Highways

• Predators

Read this sentence:

In some cases, certain species are so important that underpasses or underground tunnels are built.

What synonym could replace important? (5 points)

• Endangered

• Few

• Precious

• Weak

Read this sentence:

Working like a large funnel, these underpasses usually require a barricade or fence alongside the highway that forces animals toward a tunnel.

What synonym could replace funnel? (5 points)

• Channel

• Net

• Road

• Space

Read this sentence:

To the animals in these habitats, the overpasses may be like an extra safety net that helps them survive a drought.

What synonym could replace the phrase safety net? (5 points)

• Fishing line

• Entanglement

• Trap

• Protection

Which line shows that traveling species deserve protection? (5 points)

• Not all wildlife accommodations for highways are overpasses.

• In Florida, two such underpasses help turtles, snakes, and alligators that often migrate from one body of water to another.

• Working like a large funnel, these underpasses usually require a barricade or fence alongside the highway that forces animals toward a tunnel.

• Aquatic turtles especially benefit from these tunnels as they lay eggs in holes dug in dry ground

Read these lines from the text:

With attention to how our lives affect the natural world, we can find clever solutions, like wildlife passages, that help animals and improve our lives too. The next time you are traveling on a highway, keep your eyes peeled for a wildlife passage.

Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of this text? (5 points)

• Animals improve our lives.

• Look out for wildlife when traveling on a highway.

• Create awareness and the problem will improve.

• There are ways to help both animals and ourselves.

Katie blew out her birthday candles like a hurricane sweeping through town.

What figure of speech is used in the sentence? (5 points)

• Hyberbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

Leaving home for the last time, the porch lights winked at me as if to say goodbye.

What figure of speech is used in the sentence? (5 points)

• Hyberbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor