How the Hedgehog Survives

Questions

1. Details Where does the hedgehog live?

   tropical rainforests in central Africa the northern forests of Canada, the northern United States and Alaska gardens, hedges and woodland across the UK, Ireland and Europe the frozen Arctic, on sea ice around the North Pole
2. Details Which of these does the hedgehog eat?

   water plants flower nectar beetles jellyfish
3. Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the hedgehog use about 5,000 to 7,000 sharp spines?

   They protect it when it rolls into a tight ball. It keeps it warm in freezing prairie winds. It gives it energy when food is hard to find. It lets it breathe air without lifting its whole head out of the water.
4. Main idea What is paragraph 3 mostly about?

   where it lives how its body helps it survive where the animal sleeps what it eats
5. Vocabulary The passage says the hedgehog is a carnivore. What is a carnivore?

   an animal that eats other animals an animal that lives only in water an animal that eats only plants an animal that eats both plants and animals
6. Vocabulary In the passage, what does the word "spines" mean?

   to stay in one place in the air a thick layer of fat under the skin stiff, sharp hairs a poison an animal injects by biting or stinging
7. Evidence Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that the hedgehog's body suits its home?

   The hedgehog makes its home in gardens, hedges and woodland across the UK, Ireland and Europe. A hedgehog can travel more than a kilometer in one night looking for food. The hedgehog is a carnivore, which means it is an animal that eats other animals. One reason the hedgehog survives is about 5,000 to 7,000 sharp spines, which protect it when it rolls into a tight ball. (Spines means stiff, sharp hairs.) It also has a strong sense of smell, which helps it find insects in the dark.
8. Inference Based on the passage, why would the hedgehog have trouble surviving somewhere hot and dry?

   It would grow too big. Its young would be called something else. It would forget how to find its home. Its body and habits are suited to a place that is full of trees.

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