Mid unit 2

Which of the following text features is used to describe what a photo is about?

• Heading

• Glossary

• Caption

• MAP

Deserts are very hot and dry habitats where it doesn’t rain much. Plants and animals that live there have to survive with little water. For example, cactus plants, snakes, and lizards live in the desert.

what does habitat mean?

• where animals and plants eat

• where animals and plants live

• where animal and plants travel

what text feature is this?

• heading/title

• map

• photo and caption

• glossary

Taxonomists group fish into three classes or classifiacations. Most fish belong to the class called bony fish.

what does classification mean?

• A group of or similar to one another.

• A name of a group of things.

• Crowd or put together.

Animals with backbones come in many shapes and sizes. Apes, rhinos, horses, rabbits, bats, rats, and humans are all mammals with backbones. Lizards, turtles, snakes, and crocodiles are reptiles with backbones. Sharks, goldfish, hummingbirds, and eagles also have backbones.

What classification is used to group the animals?

• Vertebrate

• Invertebrates

• Reptiles

• Amphibians

Choose the correct word to fill in the blank in the sentence below:

It is _____ to cross the street without looking both ways.

• Unsure

• Unsafe

• Unwell

Which word below means not verbal.

• Unverable

• Verable

• Nonverbal

What text feature is this?

• Map

• Table of contents

• Diagram

In the 1700s, a scientist named Carolus Linnaeus made a system to group animals with similar features. He used his eyes and knowledge to do this, but today scientists use special tools to find even more details. For example, scientists learned that chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than to gorillas. We share an ancestor with chimps from millions of years ago! At first, Linnaeus put chimps in one group and humans in another, but now we know they belong to the same family called hominids. As science improves, scientists will keep changing how they classify animals.

Authors Purpose?

• Explaining

• Describing

• Persuade

What is the central message of the excerpt?

• Science research with chimpanzees.

• An animal classification system is being created.

• Science continues to advance.