Built For Survival: the Camel

Questions

1. Details Where does the camel live?

   warm forests in Africa and Madagascar gardens, hedges and woodland across the UK, Ireland and Europe hot, dry deserts in Africa and Asia fields and meadows across North America
2. Details Which of these does the camel eat?

   voles krill leaves water buffalo
3. Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the camel use a hump full of fat?

   It gives it energy when food is hard to find. They push it through the water. They feel for clams on the dark sea floor. They warn birds that it tastes bad.
4. Main idea What is paragraph 3 mostly about?

   how scientists count animals where the animal sleeps how its young survive how it gets food
5. Vocabulary The passage says the camel is a herbivore. What is a herbivore?

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

   stiff, sharp hairs a rounded lump on the back that stores fat the sharp claws of a bird of prey a thick layer of fat under the skin
7. Evidence Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that the camel's body suits its home?

   Its behavior matters as much as its body: it can walk for days across the sand without stopping to drink. Perhaps most remarkable of all: a thirsty camel can drink more than 100 liters of water in about ten minutes. The word hump refers to a rounded lump on the back that stores fat. Consider a hump full of fat: this adaptation gives it energy when food is hard to find.
8. Inference Based on the passage, why would the camel have trouble surviving somewhere full of trees?

   It would forget how to find its home. Its body and habits are suited to a place that is hot and dry. Its young would be called something else. It would grow too big.
9. Vocabulary As used in the passage, what is an adaptation?

   a list of the foods an animal eats a trait that helps a living thing survive in its environment a place where an animal sleeps a story about where an animal came from
10. Author's purpose Why does the author describe how the camel can walk for days across the sand without stopping to drink?

    to describe the weather where it lives to explain how the animal was named to show that behavior can be an adaptation, not just body parts to show that the animal is in danger
11. Text structure How does the author organize the passage?

    in time order, from the animal's birth to old age by describing a challenge, then the traits that help the animal meet it as a story told by the animal by comparing two different animals

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