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How Animals Protect Themselves

Questions: 5

Grade: 2

Words: 75

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Animals are smart! They have special ways to keep safe. Let's meet three amazing animals and learn how they protect themselves. Meet the porcupine with his sharp spikes, the chameleon who can change his color, and the skunk who can spray a smelly gas! A porcupine uses its sharp spikes to scare away enemies. A chameleon changes its color to hide from danger. And a skunk sprays a smelly gas to make predators go away!

Question 1

What does a porcupine use to scare away its enemies?

Sharp spikes

Explanation. A porcupine uses its sharp spikes to scare away its enemies.

Loud noise

Speed running

Camouflage

Smelly gas

Question 2

How does a chameleon protect itself from danger?

By flying

By making a loud noise

By changing its color

Explanation. A chameleon changes its color to hide from danger.

By spraying a smelly gas

By throwing spikes

Question 3

What does a skunk do to make predators go away?

It jumps high

It runs fast

It changes color

It sprays a smelly gas

Explanation. A skunk sprays a smelly gas to make predators go away.

It uses sharp spikes

Question 4

What is the common trait among these three animals?

They can fly

They are aquatic animals

They have special ways to protect themselves

Explanation. Each of these animals, the porcupine, chameleon, and skunk, have a special way to protect themselves from danger.

They are all mammals

They all eat meat

Question 5

What do we mean by 'predators' in the context of this passage?

Friends

Family

Animals that they eat

Animals that want to eat them

Explanation. In the context of this passage, 'predators' means animals that want to eat them.

Their offspring

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