HMH Module 2 Week 1 Assessment

The article tells about Fram Strait. How does the map help readers understand what a strait is?

• By showing the number of whales in Fram Strait

• By showing the water temperature in Fram Strait

• By showing that Fram Strait is near many big rivers

• By showing that Fram Strait is a narrow body of water

Read the sentences from paragraph 2. They used underwater microphones to record the whales for a year.

Based on the sentences above, what can microphones record?

• Tastes

• Sounds

• Feelings

According to paragraph 5, what is one effect of bowhead whales' thick blubber?

• The whales are not easy to hunt.

• The whales do not need any teeth.

• The whales can live in cold water all year long.

• The whales can make breathing holes in the ice.

Read the sentence from paragraph 6:

Instead, its mouth is built partly from a hard material called baleen.

Which meaning of material is used above?

• Tool

• Cloth

• What something is made of

• Information in a piece of writing

Describe the main text structure in paragraphs 7 and 8. How does the author arrange the information in these paragraphs, and why? Use details from the article to support your answer.

Read the sentence from paragraph 10:

They then listen for the echoes to help them find their way through waters that have little illumination.

Think about the Latin root lumin. What is the meaning of illumination above?

• Heat

• Light

What does the map help readers understand?

• Fram Strait is located between Greenland and Norway's Svalbard islands.

• The bowhead is the only baleen whale that can live in the Arctic all year round.

• People once used whale blubber and baleen to make many things.

• Several nations began working together to protect whales in 1946.

What is the correct way to write sentences 2 and 3?

• Every morning at breakfast we read and discuss, the new word.

• Every morning, at breakfast we read and discuss the new word.

• Every morning at breakfast, we read and discuss the new word.

• No change is needed.

What is the correct way to write sentence 6?

• Yesterday's word was preoccupied. That means "thinking about other things."

• Yesterday's word was preoccupied so that means "thinking about other things."

• Yesterday's word was preoccupied, but that means "thinking about other things."

• No change is needed.

What is the best way to write sentence 10?

• She laughed, told me I was exactly right.

• She laughed. Told me I was exactly right.

• She laughed and told me I was exactly right.

• She laughed and told me I was. Exactly right.