Grade 4 lesson 11

How do you know that the genre of the selection is Expository Nonfiction?

• It has facts and information.

• It has events that can happen in real life.

• It has animals act like people.

When animals blend in with their environment.

• mimicry

• camouflage

• predator

When animals look like other animals.

• mimicry

• camouflage

• environment

This animal is white so it can blend into the snow and ice.

• Tiger

• Polar bear

• Zebra

How do stripes on zebras help them?

• to eat and sleep

• to confuse predators

• to run and play

An alligator snapping turtle's tongue looks like a worm to .........

• play with fish

• hide from predators

• lure fish and catch them

A katydid looks like ................ .

• a leaf

• a snake

• a stone

Hornet moths don’t sting, but they have markings of the common wasp, Why?

• Wasps sting. If an insect looks like a wasp, predators will come to it.

• Wasps sting. If an insect looks like a wasp, predators will avoid it.

• Wasps sting. If an insect looks like a wasp, predators will try to eat it.

Why do animals need to hide?

Choose all the possible answers.

• to sneak up on prey

• to not be noticed by predators

• to protect their young

• to find a safe place to live

• to play with other animals hide and seek

The skunk cabbage gives off a smell of rotten meat to.......

• attract insects and get the nitrogen

• keep the predators away

• blend in its environment