Unit 2 Assessment (RI 5.3 & RI.5.2) Peep into the Deep

How did the interactions among wildlife affect the author’s experience on her trip to the Catalina Islands? (RI.5.3)

• It reminded her of the movies she had seen about ocean life.

• It caused her to seek out more movies about wildlife in the ocean.

• It made her regret seeing movies about marine life.

• It made her want to travel to other islands to see marine life.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

What was the effect of the clear water on the boat trip to Catalina Islands? (RI.5.3)

• It allows the boat captain to safely steer around obstacles.

• It helps passengers on the boat avoid getting seasick.

• It causes fish to hide away when the boat approaches.

• It allows the passengers to see the wildlife while on the boat.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

Which statement explains the interaction between sea gulls and seals? (RI.5.3)

• Sea gulls take spare bits of food from the seals.

• Sea gulls learn where to catch fish from seals.

• Sea gulls beg for food from people, just like seals.

• Sea gulls fight for territory with the seals.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

What is the relationship between iodine and the ocean? (RI.5.3)

• Iodine is a large part of ocean water’s composition.

• Iodine is the most important mineral in the ocean.

• Iodine can be harvested from kelp in the ocean.

• Iodine cannot be harvested from the ocean easily.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

Which quote supports the main idea that movies and pictures can be a great place-holder to see things that you haven’t experienced in real life? (RI.5.2)

• “Imagine my delight upon seeing a real movie of the deep, a thousand times more wonderful than any picture.”

• “There were more interesting things in store for us, however.”

• “As we went farther from shore, the water grew deeper and clearer, and the beautiful scenery of the ocean bed unrolled before our wondering eyes.”

• “It was like looking down from an airplane on fields of poppies and red clover, on hills and valleys and forests of pine.”

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CCSS.RI.5.2

How does the author develop the main ideas that the ocean is both interestingly beautiful and can aid in helping medically? (RI.5.2)

• By communicating that as they went farther off-shore, the water grew deeper and clearer and the scenery underwater became even more beautiful.

• By describing how mermaids had wept and cleaned for inspection.

• By communicating how she had seen many parts of the world through pictures, but how it was a thousand times more wonderful in person.

• By describing how the leaves of seaweed in the ocean are harvested and dried, and how they felt like they were on a real deep sea movie seeing corals, “mermaids”, and forest of fish.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

What are two main ideas about the usefulness of seaweed to the ocean in the text? (RI.5.2)

• Patches of seaweed was a reddish color that had the most beautiful tints to view, like poppies in a field.

• The large leaves of the seaweed, or kelp, are harvested to make iodine and the seaweed also provides a thick forest for fish to hide.

• The sea gulls use the seaweed to build nest for laying their eggs and the sea gulls eat the seaweed when fish are not available.

• The beautiful color of the seaweed is a huge attraction for the glass floored boats and the seaweed helps the fish hide from predators.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

Which detail reveals how the Lucy Lyons feels about the trip to the Catalina Islands? (RI.5.3)

• Lucy said it was the largest school she had ever seen in one class.

• Lucy decided to take her mother to the Islands as a gift.

• Lucy concluded that the captain told them even more about the islands.

• Lucy said that the pictures were wonderful, but they were only pictures.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

Which event influenced Lucy's choice to take a boat to the Catalina Islands? (RI.5.3)

• The captain had described more beautiful islands nearby.

• Lucy had seen a movie based on Jule Verne's story, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'.

• She was unsure of what lesson was being taught but thought it may be fun for herself and her mom.

• She was looking down from an airplane on fields of poppies and red clover, on hills and forests of pine.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

Where in the text does the main ideas of similarities between the islands emerge? (RI.5.2)

• In paragraph 1, when the author describes how the visit to California changed her view of the ocean.

• In paragraph 9, where the author explains how there are more islands which both have an abundance of sea gulls.

• In paragraph 5, where the author describes the beautiful red tinted corals.

• In paragraph 6, when the author describes the forest of fish on Catalina Island's reef.

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CCSS.RI.5.2