The Unusual Venus Fly Trap

What is the Venus flytrap?

• a plant eating insect
• an insect-eating plant
• swampy, nutrient poor soil
• a plant that grows on venus

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CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.K.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What does the author describe in the passage?

• the species of insects the Venus flytrap eats
• plants that are similar to the Venus flytrap
• the swampy regions of North and South Carolina
• how the Venus flytrap catches and eats its prey

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

The trap of the Venus flytrap may not last long.  What evidence from the passage supports this conclusion?

• The trap opens up again 5-12 days after catching and eating an insect.
• The trap stays open for a few seconds so that smaller insects can crawl out.
• The trap must squeeze the prey very tightly in order to digest or eat the insect.
• The trap can only catch about three of its prey before it dies and falls off. 

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CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What was the Venus flytrap forced to adapt?

• an environment without any other plants
• an environment with nutrient-rich soil
• an environment without nutrient-ric soil
• an environment without any large animals

What is the passage mainly about?

• different types of carnivorous plants that live in swamps
• the Venus flytrap and how it catches its prey
• the swampy areas where the Venus flytrap lives
• why the trap of the Venus flytrap turns black and fall off

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CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Read the following sentence: "The inside of a flytrap has fingerlike tentacles that help keep the insect from escaping."
The author compares tentacles to what?

• insects
• flytraps
• plants
• fingers

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below:
The Venus flytrap cannot get enough nutrients from the soil in which it grows. ___________, the Venus flytrap evolved to get nutrients from an additional source.

• Finally
• Moreover
• Although
• Consequently

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3