Vocabulary Quiz 9/29

Part A:

What is the meaning of adapt as used in the following paragraph?

Animals can adapt to their habitat. For example, the fur of polar bears looks white so they can blend in with the snow where they live.

• change with

• hide

• appear

• remain the same

Part B:

How does the photograph help the reader understand the meaning of the word adapt in the following paragraph?

Animals can adapt to their habitat. For example, the fur of polar bears looks white so they can blend in with the snow where they live.

• The photograph shows the reader the polar bear changing as the snow falls.

• The photograph shows the reader how polar bears adapt when they look for fish to eat.

• The photograph shows the reader that polar bears love the snow.

• The photograph shows the reader a white polar bear bending in to their snowy white den to avoid their predators.

Select the word from the paragraph that means  the same as trait.

Another characteristic of mammals is that they give birth to live babies. Mammal babies begin breathing, moving, and looking for food as soon as they are born. Mammal mothers make milk to feed their newborns. This is another key characteristic of all mammals.

• key

• milk

• mammals

• characteristic

Read this paragraph. Select the sentence that helps the reader understand what constant means.

Scientist classify animals as mammals or reptiles based on how the animals control their body temperature. All animals need to keep a constant temperature inside their bodies for their bodies to work properly. If an animal gets too hot or too cold, its body will not work the way it should. An animal may become sick or even die. It is important that animals keep a steady temperature in order for them to survive.

• Scientist classify animals as mammals or reptiles based on how the animals control their body temperature.

• If an animal gets too hot or too cold, its body will not work the way it should.

• An animal may become sick or even die

• It is important that animals keep a steady temperature in order for them to survive.

Read the following paragraph: 

Like mammals, birds are warm-blooded. Many birds migrate when the seasons change. In late fall, they fly in groups called flocks from colder places to warmer places. Then, in the spring after winter is over, they migrate back to the place where they were in the fall. Birds are the only animal besides some insects and bats that are able to fly like an airplane.

Which of the following words has the closest meaning to the word migrate?

• eat

• stay

• perch

• travel

Read the sentence from "A Butterfly's Life Cycle"

Metamorphosis is the process of growing and changing that turns an egg into a caterpillar, a caterpillar into a chrysalis, and a chrysalis into a butterfly. These pictures show the metamorphosis of a monarch butterfly.

Which quotation from "Poison Dart Frogs" has a word that means about the same as the word metamorphosis?

• They are dedicated parents.

• Poison dart frogs are amphibians.

• Eventually, the tadpoles experience a transformation.

• Moms and dads both carry the tadpoles up into the canopy.

PART A

Read the following:

Hibernating amphibians can survive for months. They do not eat or move, using only the fat stored in their body to stay alive. 

What does the author mean by the word survive in the paragraph?

• to eliminate

• to seep out

• to get rid of

• to continue to live

PART B: 

Select the phrase that helps the reader understand what survive means.

Hibernating amphibians can survive for months. They do not eat or move , using only the fat stored in their body to stay alive.

• hibernating

• eat

• stored

• alive

PART A

Read the following:

Frogs like this one secrete poison. That means the poison seeps out from its skin. 

What does the author mean by the word secrete in the paragraph?

• to eliminate

• to seep out

• to get rid of

• to continue to live

PART B: 

Select the phrase that helps the reader understand what secrete means.

Frogs like this secrete poison. This means the poison seeps out from its skin.

• poison

• seeps out

• frogs

• skin