Bowhead Whales Quiz

How many groups of bowhead whales are there in the world?

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

What is the bowhead whale's mouth partly built from?

• Teeth

• Blubber

• Baleen

• Cartilage

The bowhead whale has teeth.

• True

• False

The article tells about Fram Strait. How does the map help readers understand what a strait is?

• by showing the number of whales in Fram Strait

• by showing the water temperature in Fram Strait

• by showing that Fram Strait is near many big rivers

• by showing that Fram Strait is a narrow body of water

Read the sentences from paragraph 2. They used underwater microphones to record the whales for a year. The recordings helped them count the whales and study their songs. Based on the sentences above, what can microphones record?

• tastes

• sounds

• feelings

• thoughts

According to paragraph 5, what is one effect of bowhead whales’ thick blubber?

• The whales are not easy to hunt.

• The whales do not need any teeth.

• The whales can live in cold water all year long.

• The whales can make breathing holes in the ice.

Read the sentence from paragraph 6. Instead, its mouth is built partly from a hard material called baleen. Which meaning of material is used above?

• tool

• cloth

• what something is made of

• information in a piece of writing

What is the main text structure in paragraphs 7 and 8. How does the author arrange the information in these paragraphs, and what is the evidence? Choose TWO answers.

• The author uses this structure to explain that bowhead whales were once hunted almost to extinction, but that countries around the world worked together to solve this problem.

• The author uses a cause-and-effect structure.

• The author uses a problem-solution text structure.

• The author uses this structure to show the effects of hunting bowhead whales.

Read the sentence from paragraph 10. They then listen for the echoes to help them find their way through waters that have little illumination. Think about the Latin root lumin. What is the meaning of illumination above?

• heat

• light

• food

• weight

What does the map help readers understand?

• Fram Strait is located between Greenland and Norway’s Svalbard islands.

• The bowhead is the only baleen whale that can live in the Arctic all year round.

• People once used whale blubber and baleen to make many things.

• Several nations began working together to protect whales in 1946.