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Sharks

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 37mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Your Name:

4 lines
2.

What does the author say the shark's skin feels like?

a)

snake's skin

b)

sandpaper

c)

moist paper towel

3.

How would you describe cartilage?

a)

its just like a bone

b)

it's firm but flexible

c)

it's very weak

d)

it's jagged

4.

Shark babies are called guppies.

a)

true

b)

false

5.

What is a predator?

a)

a tiny organism that floats in the ocean

b)

an animal that is hunted and killed by another animal

c)

a baby shark

d)

an animal that kills and eats another animal

6.

Why does a shark taste its food?

a)

to see if it's tasty

b)

to see if it will bite back

c)

to see if it is fatty enough

d)

to see if it's still alive

7.

Which statement bests describes a whale shark?

a)

they have large teeth for tearing meat

b)

they are small sharks

c)

they attack everything

d)

they are very large but have tiny teeth and eat plankton

8.

Some sharks glow in the dark which helps them attract prey.

a)

true

b)

false

9.

Which statement best describes how people are endangering sharks?

a)

they get caught in nets and die

b)

people try to have them as pets

c)

there are too many people swimming in the ocean

d)

they play with them to much

10.

Which of the following is NOT a text feature?

a)

picture

b)

all of the words in a story or passage

c)

caption

d)

table of contents

11.

Which of the following text features describe a caption?

a)

when a close up picture is shown

b)

when a word is bold and stands out

c)

a photograph

d)

a sentence or sentences that tell what's going on in a picture

12.

Which of the following text features describes when a word is darker than others and stands out from the rest of the text?

a)

the glossary

b)

bold words

c)

the heading

d)

a photograph

13.

This text feature helps a reader find what page to go to to read about a certain topic. (It's found at the front of some books.)

a)

Table of Contents

b)

captions

c)

glossary

d)

headings

14.

Yesterday we watched in awe as the eagle was gracefully _________________ through the blue sky.

a)

predator

b)

grinding

c)

gliding

d)

blend

15.

The jaguar quietly stalked its _________________ through the tall grass as her young watched and learned from their mother.

a)

predator

b)

prey

c)

rare

d)

blend

16.

I tried to find my sister in the woods, but her green jacket helped her _______________ in with the trees.

a)

prey

b)

rare

c)

pickle

d)

blend

17.

Emily began researching the ______________ illness that was affecting her family.

a)

grinding

b)

predator

c)

rare

d)

prey

18.

The lion is a fierce _____________ that lives in the African Savannah.

a)

predator

b)

prey

c)

shark

d)

human

19.

Sometimes my father keeps my mother up at night with the noise he makes from __________________ his teeth together.

a)

snoring

b)

talking

c)

laughing

d)

grinding