Unit 5, Week 5 Word Study and Comprehension Quiz 10/25/24

Directions: Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word or phrase. Many animals survive through interdependence.

• relying on each other

• moving away from each other

• fighting over the same land for food

• storing their food and then eating it in the winter

Directions: Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word or phrase. Forest animals and plants are part of a food chain.

• living things that share food with others

• living things that communicate with each other

• living things that protect their food from others

• living things that depend on each other as food sources

Directions: Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word or phrase. Spotted skin can camouflage a frog from its predators.

• chase

• hide

• move

• scare

Directions: Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word or phrase. Animal adaptations take place over time.

• food sources

• slow movement

• changes for survival

• interdependent webs

Directions: Choose the word that correctly shortens each boldfaced phrase into a contraction. do not

• dont’

• don’t

• don’ot

• dono’t

Directions: Choose the word that correctly shortens each boldfaced phrase into a contraction. you are

• youre’

• your’e

• you’re

• youre

Directions: Choose the word that correctly shortens each boldfaced phrase into a contraction. can not

• cant’

• can’t

• cann’t

• canno’t

Directions: Choose the word that correctly shortens each boldfaced phrase into a contraction. that is

• thats

• tha’ts

• that’s

• thats’

Directions: Read the question. Then choose the best answer. The contraction we’re combines and shortens —

• we are

• we here

• we were

• we where

Which sentence or sentences from the selection best shows the author’s purpose?

• There are many kinds of fruits and seeds—apples, berries, and acorns, to name a few.

• But plants can’t do this by themselves. They depend on other things to help them.

• Plants like Enchanter’s Nightshade have a different kind of fruit.

• Soon, the deer or rabbit will move to a new place and the Enchanter’s Nightshade fruit will fall off. The seeds inside the fruit can then grow into new plants.