Vocabulary
means to fall straight down very fast
plummet
communication between two animals
is often loud or bright enough for other animals to hear or see.
Biologists call animal's ability to detect each other's messages
eavesdropping
The noisy warning call of the go-away bird
also warns other animals that a predator is approaching
stop it from being completed
foil
Eavesdropping allows animals to
food food, a home, or a mate
Most kinds of animals
use different senses to do their eavesdropping
How are eavesdrop and listen the same
they are both about using your ears to hear things.
if you have a _____________ in a plan, you will lose something if the plan doesn't work out
stake
What does anecdote mean
is a short account of an event that is told in an entertaining and or memorable way.
How is predator and enemy different
predator hunts another animal and enemy may do different kinds of harm in different ways.
an animal that eats other animals
predator
both involve being in the air or upright and then ending up on the group or not upright
reward is something that is earned and is positive.
What kind of story is the Animals Snoops
informational
interrupt or listen to it as it goes somewhere else.
intercept
Give two examples from the text of how animals spy and snoop to find food?
Timber rattlesnakes study the habits of their prey, using scent clues; one kind of firefly uses the mating signal of another kind to find and eat it; a white stork uses the mating song of moor frogs to find and eat them; crab spiders weave webs next to flowers that bees visit and trap the bees for food.
Explain how the anecdotes in Animal Snoops help readers understand and remember the text.
Each anecdote provides an example of an important idea in the text that makes the idea easier to understand and remember later. The reader can picture the events in the anecdote happing and understand how animal eavesdropping works.
What is the name of the story we are reading.
Animal Snoops