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Meet the Chameleon

The chameleon is a reptile. It lives in warm forests in Africa and Madagascar. Its home is warm and rainy.

The chameleon eats crickets, grasshoppers and flies. It changes the color of its skin to signal its mood, warm up or cool down.

The chameleon has a sticky tongue that can be longer than its body. This shoots out to catch insects in a fraction of a second. It is about from 2 centimeters to about 70 centimeters long, depending on the kind.

Baby chameleons are called hatchlings. Most chameleons hatch from eggs buried in the soil.

Questions

  1. Details Where does the chameleon live?
  2. Details Which of these does the chameleon eat?
  3. Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the chameleon use a sticky tongue that can be longer than its body?
  4. Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
  5. Vocabulary Baby chameleons are called…
  6. Inference What word best describes where the chameleon lives?
  7. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

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