A Home on the Prairie

1. What type of genre is A Home on the Prairie?

• Fiction
• Informational Text
• Poetry

2. What is a prairie?

• A large open grassland with very few trees.
• A large landform that rises above the surrounding land in a limited area.
• An area of tall, mostly evergreen trees and high amount of rainfall.

3. What type of animals live on the prairie?

• squirrels and javelinas
• tigers and giraffes
• rattlesnakes and deer

4. What is another name for buffalo?

• prairie dog
• bison
• badgers

5. How are the burrowing owls and the prairie dogs alike (the same).

• The both hunt for food at night.
• They both can fly.
• They both like in underground holes.

6. What does grazers mean?

• Animals that feed on the prairie grass.
• A tall type of grass found on the prairie.
• Animals that live in underground holes.

7. How did the prairie dog get their name?

• They dig holes like the dogs.
• They make loud barking noises.
• The look like a small dog.

8. What do rattlesnakes eat?

• mice and young rabbits
• young prairie dogs and berries
• squirrels and baby bison

9. All of the following are rattlesnake's enemies EXCEPT?

• hawks
• humans
• Prairie dogs

10. What is a burrow?

• A place where a plant or an animal usually lives.
• Holes or tunnels in the ground that are made by a small animal.
• A group of animals that live in one place.