How the Hummingbird Survives

Questions

1. Details Where does the hummingbird live?

   fields and meadows across North America near lakes, rivers and coasts across North America gardens, forests and mountains across the Americas rivers, streams and ponds in North America and Europe
2. Details Which of these does the hummingbird eat?

   tiny insects buds stems caterpillars
3. Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the hummingbird use wings that beat up to 80 times a second?

   They let it chew through tree trunks. They help it climb and walk on its knuckles. They let it hover in one place and even fly backward. It helps it hide in tall grass and shadows while it stalks prey.
4. Main idea What is paragraph 3 mostly about?

   where it lives how its young grow up what it eats how scientists count animals
5. Vocabulary The passage says the hummingbird is an omnivore. What is an omnivore?

   an animal that eats other animals an animal that eats only plants an animal that eats both plants and animals an animal that sleeps all winter
6. Vocabulary In the passage, what does the word "hover" mean?

   a long, tube-shaped mouth part used for sucking shaped to move easily through water or air a thick layer of fat under the skin to stay in one place in the air
7. Evidence Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that the hummingbird's body suits its home?

   To find food, it visits hundreds of flowers every day to get enough energy. Its nest is about the size of a walnut shell and is held together with spider silk. One reason the hummingbird survives is wings that beat up to 80 times a second, which let it hover in one place and even fly backward. (Hover means to stay in one place in the air.) It also has a long, thin beak and tongue, which reach nectar deep inside flowers. The hummingbird makes its home in gardens, forests and mountains across the Americas.
8. Inference Based on the passage, why would the hummingbird have trouble surviving somewhere wide and open?

   Its young would be called something else. It would have nothing to do all day. Its body and habits are suited to a place that is full of trees. It would grow too big.

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