WorksheetsBirds: Text-Based Evidence
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Select the best text-based evidence to describe the movement of birds.
"Birds have evolved to survive in amazing ways"
"More than 100 billion birds live on our planet"
"Most birds can fly, but some can also swim"
"Others can run faster than a horse"
Select a habitat that birds adapted to millions of years ago.
Cities
Mountains
Seas
Plateaus
Birds are distant relatives to which species?
fossils
fish
arachnids
dinosaurs
How do birds get their energy?
Through a "respiratory system that is amazingly well organized"
Through "lots of food"
Through "air sacs that extend into its abdomen and large bones"
Through "the skeleton and feathers during flight"
Birds feathers are important. Select the answer that does not support this claim.
They protect a bird from heat, cold, and water.
They are colorful.
They help a bird hide from predators.
They are the main tool for flight.
Plumage is important for many reasons. Select the answer that is not important.
"It attracts females"
"It serves as camouflage"
"It allows birds to identify other birds from their own species and communicate with them"
"Colors occur if the feathers are structured so they can scatter and reflect light in a special way"
The author infers that birds are more amazing than flying insects and ants. Select the text-based evidence that best supports that inference.
"Most birds flap their wings to stay airborne, using their tail to help them change direction."
"Birds with longer wings can take advantage of air currents to travel far."
"Birds use flight to find food, get away from enemies, or migrate thousands of miles."
"They can use wild energy generated by the interaction between wind and waves to stay airborne".
Paragraph 2 says "Many flightless birds evolved on remote islands." What is a synonym for evolved?
enlarged
emerged
resulted
deminished
What is unique about the way the African Spoonbill hunts? Select the evidence from the text that answers the question.
"They use their bills and feet to hold what they eat, to move things around..."
"The bill is made of keratin, the same substance of which feathers are made."
"It has a flat, round bulge on the end of its long bill."
"It sweeps the floor of a lake with its lower mandible, and traps food between the two spoonlike tips."
In the text it states, "Is it about to migrate to a warmer climate?" What is an antonym for the word migrate?
stay
roam
immigrate
emigrate
