Streams, stream banks, and the low lands around them provide important habitat for animals and plants that share the urban/suburban landscape with us.
What does the word habitat mean as it is used in the sentence?
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English
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6th Grade
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Hard
Margaret Anderson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Streams, stream banks, and the low lands around them provide important habitat for animals and plants that share the urban/suburban landscape with us.
What does the word habitat mean as it is used in the sentence?
area
environment
shelter
territory
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Instead it hits impervious surfaces like hard pavement and rooftops and has no chance to infiltrate the soil.
What is the meaning of the word impervious as it is used in the sentence?
affected
cracked
exposed
resistant
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
If all this extra water is diverted directly into a stream channel, several important changes will occur.
What is the meaning of the word diverted as it is used in the sentence?
pushed
sped forward
brought together
redirected
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Based on the information in paragraph 8, what inference can be drawn about water movement in cities?
Natural waterways have disappeared.
Natural waterways are overloaded with rainwater.
There are fewer natural waterways now than in the past.
Flooding is caused when man-made waterways overflow.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
As he sat on the grass and looked across the river, a dark hole in the bank opposite, just above the water's edge, caught his eye, and dreamily he fell to considering what a nice, snug dwelling-place it would make for an animal with few wants and fond of a bijou riverside residence, above flood level and remote from noise and dust.
What does the word remote mean as it is used in the sentence?
bothered
delayed
isolated
reserved
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Then he held up his fore-paw as the Mole stepped gingerly down.
What does the word gingerly mean as it is used in the sentence?
angrily
carefully
clumsily
quickly
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
As he sat on the grass and looked across the river, a dark hole in the bank opposite, just above the water's edge, caught his eye, and dreamily he fell to considering what a nice, snug dwelling-place it would make for an animal with few wants and fond of a bijou riverside residence, above flood level and remote from noise and dust. As he gazed, something bright and small seemed to twinkle down in the heart of it, vanished, then twinkled once more like a tiny star.
How does the use of the words "bright," "twinkle," and "like a tiny star" impact the tone of the passage?
The words develop a positive outlook.
The words create an unwelcoming setting.
The words establish an element of surprise.
The words describe a conflict in the passage.
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