Birds: Text-Based Evidence

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