Meet the Monarch Butterfly

Questions

1. Details Where does the monarch butterfly live?

   the dry grasslands and deserts of southern Africa cool coastal waters in oceans around the world the oceans and the rivers that flow into them fields and meadows across North America
2. Details Which of these does the monarch butterfly eat?

   spiders lemmings sea urchins flower nectar
3. Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the monarch butterfly use bright orange and black wings?

   They let it hover in one place and even fly backward. They let it run about 30 kilometers an hour. They warn birds that it tastes bad. It helps it grip bamboo stalks.
4. Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?

   where it lives what it eats how its body helps it how scientists count animals
5. Vocabulary Baby monarch butterflies are called…

   eaglets caterpillars joeys chicks
6. Inference What word best describes where the monarch butterfly lives?

   near fresh water wide and open full of trees freezing cold
7. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   the colors of flower nectar how to keep a pet the life of the monarch butterfly the life of the polar bear

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