Pages 330-331
Pages 332-335
Pages 336-339
Pages 340-343
General Questions
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What is the genre of the passage?
expository nonfiction
100
What is the habitat of the golden orb weaver?
forests and clearings in South America, Central America, and southern United States
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What does the Water Spider live in?
an air bubble house
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Describe how the way a ray spider catches its prey is different from most spiders.
The ray spider uses its silk web as a slingshot to catch its prey, others spiders just catch what flies into their web.
100
Identify the passage as real or make believe?
real
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How can you tell the passage is expository nonfiction?
It has facts and information about spiders.
200
Describe how a Hawaiian Happy-Faced Spider catches its prey?
She tosses her silk over the prey, reels it in, wraps it, and tucks it in her web.
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What does the Water Spider eat?
small aquatic prey, such as tadpoles and baby fish
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What does the ray spider eat?
small flying insects, such as flies, moths, and beetles
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Identify the passage as fiction or nonfiction?
nonfiction
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Why do spiders make webs?
to capture insects and other small prey
300
What does the Hawaiian Happy-Faced Spider eat?
small insects
300
How did Social Spiders get their name?
because they live together in groups
300
How can you tell the author wants people to be careful about spiders?
because she tells you that spider bites can be poisonous or painful
300
What is the author's purpose for writing the passage?
to inform or give information
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Why does the author feel we should respect spiders?
because they control the insect population and they are a food supply for birds and other animals
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What is the other job of the web besides being used to catch insects?
It is used as a nursery for the baby spiders.
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Why does the author compare the Social Spiders' web to a garbage truck?
So you can picture the size of the web and know how big it is
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How are most spiders alike?
They all eat insects or they all make webs.
400
Find a simile on page 339.
Thousands of these spiders work together to make a web that can be as big as a garbage truck.
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Fact or opinion: Most spiders are not harmful to us.
fact
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How is the web of the golden orb weaver different from other spiders' webs?
It can be different colors like gold or white.
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What were the Social Spiders doing in the photograph on page 339?
attacking a katydid that got caught in its net
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Why do spiders build webs?
to catch insects, have a place for their eggs or store their food for future use
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Find a simile on page 336.
The air makes the web swell up like a balloon.
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