Meet the Camel: Grade 3 Reading Comprehension

The camel is a mammal. It lives in hot, dry deserts in Africa and Asia. Its home is hot and dry.

The camel eats dry grasses, thorny plants and leaves. It can walk for days across the sand without stopping to drink.

The camel has a hump full of fat. This gives it energy when food is hard to find. It is about 2 meters tall at the hump.

Baby camels are called calves. A calf can walk just a few hours after it is born.

Questions

Details Where does the camel live?
the frozen Arctic, on sea ice around the North Pole hot, dry deserts in Africa and Asia cool, misty mountain forests in China eucalyptus forests in eastern Australia
Details Which of these does the camel eat?
leaves shrimp berries small fish
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the camel use a hump full of fat?
They startle hungry predators so it can escape. They let it creep up silently. It gives it energy when food is hard to find. They let it watch for food and danger at the same time.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
how scientists count animals why some animals are in danger its young what it eats
Vocabulary Baby camels are called…
tadpoles owlets calves cubs
Inference What word best describes where the camel lives?
near fresh water hot and dry deep and salty wide and open
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the polar bear the life of the red-eyed tree frog how to keep a pet the life of the camel

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