3.U2W5 Nature's Patchwork Quilt

Many animals survive through interdependence.

• relying on each other

• moving away from each other

• fighting over the same food

• storing their food and then eating it again

Forest animals and plants are part of a food chain.

• living things that share food with others

• living things that protect their food from others

• living things that protect their food from others

• living things that depend on each other as food sources

Spotted skin can camouflage a frog from its predators.

• chase

• hide

• move

• scare

Animal adaptations take place over time.

• food sources

• slow movement

• changes for survival

• interdependent webs

Which phrase is a synonym for biodiversity in the sentence below?

There is a great amount of biodiversity in the ocean.

• level of water

• water movement

• change in temperature

• many kinds of plants and animals.

Which sentence or sentences from the selection best shows the author's purpose?

• There are many kinds of fruits and seeds--apples, berries, and acorns, to name a few.

• But plants can't do this by themselves. The depend on other things to help them.

• Plants like Enchanter's Nightshade have a different kind of fruit.

• Soon, the deer or rabbit will move to a new place and the Enchanter's Nightshade fruit will fall off. The seeds inside the fruit can then grow into new plants.

Which sentence in paragraph 2 and 3 does the author use to show why it is important that seeds do not land near each other?

• They have to constantly fight for the same water, nutrients, and sunlight.

• But plants can't do this by themselves.

• Some plants depend on the wind to blow their seeds to new places.

• When an animal eats a fruit such as an apple, it eats the seeds too.

In parapgraph 4, the author uses the simile "like a tear-shaped fluff ball" to --

• show how the fruit can be fun to play catch with

• help the reader visualize the fruit

• show the reader why animals don't eat the fruit

• help the reader imagine how good the fruit tastes

When plants and animals depend on one another for survival it's called -

• interdependence

• biodiversity

• adaptation

• camouflage

The owl's ability to hide in the tree is called -

• interdependence

• biodiversity

• adaptation

• camouflage