Informational texts questionnaire

Cause and effect, chronological order, problem and solution, compare and contrast are types of...

• Descriptive text

• Personal narrative

• Informational text

• Fiction

One signal word for indicating cause and effect is: __________

What is mimicry?

• Organized or designed.

• All the living things and conditions of a place

• A category of living things.

• The ability to look or act like something else.

What is NOT a characteristic of an informational text?

• It can include imaginary creatures or machines.

• It has a main idea about a topic.

• It shows text and graphic features.

• It has key details that support a main idea.

Batesian, Müllerian and self are kinds of:

• Habitats

• Mimicry

• Environments

• Species

An example of self-mimicry is:

• The frogmouth catfish has something on its tongue that looks like food other fish like to eat.

• The bad-tasting viceroy mimics the poisonous monarch butterfly.

• King and milk snakes copy the color of the coral snake as a defense.

Mimicry happens in __________ and ___________.

What is a spittlebug?

• Is the baby of a butterfly

• Is a poisonous animal.

• Is the young form of a froghopper.

• Is a kind of plant in the meadow.

The milkweed is a plant that is toxic to most insects and animals, except for...

• The deer.

• The monarch butterfly.

• The spittlebug.

• The froghopper.

What is the "secret language" of butterflies?

• The veins of the plants.

• The milky sap of the milkweed.

• Their poison.

• The ultraviolet patterns of flowers.