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General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
True or False: Animals can send each other messages.
What is true?
100
Explain what a caterpillar does to protect itself.
What is it gives off a bad smell?
100
Tell what a male elephant seal is called.
What is a bull?
100
Tell whether this passage is fiction or nonfiction.
What is nonfiction?
100
What type of figurative language is "Spongebob Squarepants"?
alliteration?
200
Explain what Pika do to warn others of danger.
What is they call out a loud warning, "Eeek"?
200
Explain why the baby birds open their mouths.
What is because they want to be fed?
200
Explain why the beluga whale is called "the canary of the sea".
What is because its chirps sound like a canary's chirps?
200
Tell the author's purpose.
What is to give information and facts?
200
What type of figurative language is: "The road is like a winding snake".
a simile?
300
Explain why white tailed deer flick their tails up.
What is they are letting other deer know that danger is near?
300
Explain what the red shape on the belly of a spider tells you.
What is that it is a poisonous black widow spider?
300
Explain why a young owl will peck its mother.
What is because it is hungry and wants to be fed?
300
Explain how you know the passage is nonfiction.
What is it gives true facts about animals and how they communicate?
300
What type of figurative language is - "The flowers danced across the meadow."
personification?
400
Explain what a male deer does to tell other deer to stay away.
What is it rubs against a tree leaving its smell there?
400
True or False: We do not know how birds communicate.
What is true?
400
Tell what is true about chimpanzees.
What is they comfort each other by grooming?
400
Give the passage a new title.
What is ? The teacher will decide. The new title should be about animals and how they communicate.
400
What type of figurative language is: - "My dad is a bear in the morning."
a metaphor?
500
Describe how you know if a wolf is angry.
What is it raises its back and walks with its legs stiff?
500
Explain why two bull elk crash horns.
What is to see which one is stronger or more powerful?
500
Tell what is similar about the way that two bull elks and two arctic hares communicate.
What is they both fight with each other to see who is stronger or more powerful?
500
Tell the main idea of "How Animals Talk".
What is animals communicate with each other in different ways?
500
Tell the author's opinion about nature.
What is he likes nature and wants readers to study it?
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