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When humans _______________ it can be a danger to sugar gliders because it leaves the sugar gliders without _______________.
When humans cut down trees it can be a danger to sugar gliders because it leaves the sugar gliders without a place to live.
What is the meaning of the word sail as it is used in the sentence?
Drift
According to the passage, why should a pet owner buy at least two sugar gliders?
"It is best to adopt at least two sugar gliders so they can snuggle with each other when you are away."
Based on the structure of this text, what features support you in looking for specific information about sugar gliders?
The headings and sub headings.
Select two things which a sugar glider’s sense of smell helps it to do.
Sugar gliders have a highly developed sense of smell to detect predators, find food, and recognize their family.
Young babies are especially vulnerable to predators, and many live less than a year.
What is the meaning of the word, vulnerable as it is used in the sentence?
Open to attack
What will happen to sugar gliders that live in a forest that has many owls?
"Owls are the most dangerous threat since they are also nocturnal like the sugar gliders. Young babies are especially vulnerable to predators, and many live less than a year."
Read this sentence.
How does the author develop the idea that Damion was more in life than he is telling his friends.
What is meant by the word develop?
How the author first introduces the idea, the details did does he provides to support the idea, and how the idea concluded.
A sugar glider uses its patagiums and its tail for different purposes. List the purposes for the pargiums. List the purposes for their tails.
"Besides large eyes and a flap for flying, sugar gliders have long tails that work like rudders to balance and steer them when they fly. Their tails also help them carry food and sticks to their nests."
"They use special body parts called patagiums (puh-tey-jee-uhms) to help them glide.The membrane then works like a parachute to ease them onto the branch for a smooth landing!
Read this sentence.
When they leap from a tree, they first extend their legs to flatten and stretch the membrane into a rectangle shape.
Based on what you've seen and read, what is the sugar glier's membrane?
a thin sheet of tissue or layer of cells acting as a boundary, lining, or partition in an organism.
the skin connecting the sugar glider's four hands
Select two phrases from paragraphs 10-11 that support the inference that owning a pet sugar glider would be different from owning most pets.
"They are loved for their small size, playful behavior, and cuteness! Although they are usually at home in the wild, people are willing to adopt them as household pets."
Which quote helps the reader to understand the plot's rising action? How do you know?
"Mary Beth was now seeing her father for the first time." (paragraph 4)
"Mary Beth always suspected her mother was hiding something." (paragraph 1).
"Mary's grandfather was her best friend."
(paragraph 1)
"Mary Beth and her father agreed to get to now one another." (paragraph 10)
"Mary Beth was now seeing her father for the first time." (paragraph 3)
The rising action is where the plot begins to unfold. Paragraph 1 is the introduction of the story.
Paragraph 10 is likely to be the falling action or solution/resolution.
Paragraph 4 is in the middle, which is where the rising action begins.
According to paragraph 7, why do sugar gliders gather for long periods of time in the winter?
They also have a unique ability to cluster with each other to stay warm during winter. They go into a light sleep called torpor (tawr-per) to conserve energy and lower their heart rate.
Read the following sentence from paragraph 11.
Sugar gliders can live as long as 15 years in captivity, so be prepared to care for them a long time.
What is the meaning of the word captivity?
imprisoned / confined to a particular space or area
Read this sentence from paragraph 8.
"The sugar glider population is stable now, but two major challenges threaten the glider’s long-term survival."
What is the meaning of the word stable?
not likely to give way or overturn; firmly fixed
An author's purpose will always be to....
Inform/entertain/persuade/express/describe
According to paragraph 2, some people identify sugar gliders as flying squirrels because they
________________________, but they have more in common with______________________.
According to paragraph 2, some people identify sugar gliders as flying squirrels because they
have the same physical traits, but they have more in common with
animals that carry their young in a special pocket
Read this sentence from paragraph 3.
Some call the sugar glider “nature’s acrobat” because of its amazing ability to sail in the air.
What is an acrobat? What is meant by "nature's acrobat?"
Acrobat - an entertainer who performs spectacular gymnastic skills that requires great courage, skill, or strength.
Sugar gliders are the skilled performers of nature/in the wild
How is Torpor different from hibernation?
Torpor is different from hibernation since it is usually a daily, short-term event.
What is meant when asked, how does the story's setting move the plot forward?
You're being asked to explain how the time and place where the story happens helps to:
Create or increase conflict,
Shape characters’ actions or decisions, or
Influence the events that happen in the story.
**Basically, how does the setting help things happen?