The Weird and Wonderful Echidna
The echidna has this adaptation that allows it to camouflage into its surroundings, like rocks, soil, and dead leaves.
What is 'spines'?
The author of the informational text, 'The Very Peculiar Platypus' is
Who is 'Wade Hudson'?
This vocabulary word is a synonym to the word "change".
What is 'adaptation'?
This latin root means 'water'
What is 'aqua'?
The echidna and the platypus both live on this continent.
What is 'Australia'?
The type of echidna that has its habitat in Australia is the ________ echidna.
What is 'the short-billed echidna'?
The platypus has this adaptation that allows them to become good swimmers.
What is 'webbed feet'?
This vocabulary term has the synonym 'unusual'
What is 'unique'?
The word, verdict, has this latin root.
What is 'dict'?
In order to contrast two things, you must talk about the ________ between two things. On the other hand, in order to compare two things, you must talk about the ________ of two things.
What is 'differences' and what is 'similarities'?
The short-beaked echidna has a tongue that is great for
What is 'grabbing ants, termites, and other tiny prey'?
Three text features from the informational text, 'The Very Peculiar Platypus,' are
What is 'captions,' 'maps,' 'photographs,' 'headings'?
This vocabulary term means 'to dig a hole'.
What is burrow?
This word's meaning is 'a specific animal's land'. The animal lives on and protects this land.
What is 'territory'?
The echidna's beak and the platypus's bill both have this adapted tool that helps it to detect electrical signals given off by living creatures.
What are 'sensors'?
The echidna has a layer of muscle that allows it to flatten into a _____ in order to hide from its predators
The platypus wants to eat these three animals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
What are 'insects, shellfish, and worms'?
The vocabulary term that best matches the definition "the ability to be aware (of a smell, of a sound, of a feeling)" is
What is 'sense'?
The words 'interrupt' and 'eruption' both contain this latin root.
What is 'rupt'?
The platypus is different from the echidna because it uses this adaptation to protect itself from predators.
What is 'venom'?
The echidna uses this feature to poke and prod in order to find its prey. It is used as its digging tool.
What is 'beak'?
This is the name of the monotreme on 'Phineas and Ferb'
What is 'Perry the Platypus'?
A monotreme is
What is 'an egg-laying mammal'/'mammal that lays eggs'?
This word is used in mathematics and has the latin root 'tract' in it.
What is 'subtract/subtraction'?
This makes monotremes different from almost all other mammals.
What is 'they lay eggs'?