Meet the Polar Bear: Grade 2 Reading Comprehension

The polar bear is a mammal. It lives in the frozen Arctic, on sea ice around the North Pole. Its home is freezing cold.

The polar bear eats seals, fish and bird eggs. It waits beside holes in the ice for seals to come up for air.

The polar bear has a thick layer of fat called blubber. This keeps it warm in freezing water. It is about 3 meters long.

Baby polar bears are called cubs. Cubs are born in a snow den in winter and stay with their mother for about two years.

Questions

Details Where does the polar bear live?
a few hot, dry islands in Indonesia the frozen Arctic, on sea ice around the North Pole the warm, wet rainforests of Central America deserts and dry scrubland in the southwestern United States and Mexico
Details Which of these does the polar bear eat?
sedges twigs bird eggs jellyfish
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the polar bear use a thick layer of fat called blubber?
They reach nectar deep inside flowers. It protects its paws from the burning sand. They protect it when it rolls into a tight ball. It keeps it warm in freezing water.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
where it lives what it eats how its body helps it why some animals are in danger
Vocabulary Baby polar bears are called…
kits hatchlings cubs pups
Inference What word best describes where the polar bear lives?
hot and dry full of trees deep and salty freezing cold
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the monarch butterfly the colors of seals the life of the polar bear how to keep a pet

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