Everglades Forever Comprehension Quiz

1.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What do coastal marshes, forests, inlets, grass flats, islands, and still backwaters have in common?

heat

ice

sand

water

2.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What is the author's main purposes in writing Everglades Forever?

explain and criticize

inform and persuade

exaggerate and persuade

inform and express emotions

3.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Why do animals thermoregulate?

to warm up

to lower its heart rate

to eat

to bathe in brackish water

4.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What does the word elevation mean?

distance to the next town

distance above sea level

amount of yearly rain

the mixture of salt and fresh water

5.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What is a habitat?

the weather

the types of vegetation

natural environment

the food needed to eat

6.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What is brackish water?

creek water

muddy water

salty water

fresh rainwater and salty seawater mixed together

7.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which animals rely on the habitat of the mangrove swamp?

egrets and lizards

anhingas and egrets

ospreys and cormorants

sea turtles and manatees

8.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

How are solution holes formed?

soil and fertilizer

sawgrass and rainwater

hammocks and sloughs

tannic acid and limestone

9.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

How do Ranger Jim's actions show that this passage is persuasive?

He helped the author write "Everglades Forever."

He takes the children for a walk.

He signs up the children for the Everglades' junior ranger program

He gives the children ideas about how they can help save the Everglades.

10.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which of the following is the most impressive thing about the sawgrass prairie?

the animals

It is dry.

It has marshes

silence

11.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What does the author say will help save the Everglades?

It must be done to preserve the circle of life.

The children can do it if they start now and work hard

The rainwater must be regulated.

The sawgrass will save the Everglades.

12.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What is the Restoration Plan?

A plan to open a nature themed amusement park in the Everglades.

A plan to allow freshwater to flow more naturally to the ocean to regulate the water flowing into the mangrove swamps.

A plan to bring freshwater in from another source.

A plan to dig out saltwater lagoons to create more mangrove swamps.

13.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

On page 244, why did the author ask the question "What would happen to all the unique plants and animals they had seen?"

She wants the reader to use more water.

She wants the reader to plant unique plants in the Everglades.

She wants the reader to talk to the farmers about having less animals.

She wants the reader to think about the effects of farming and development on the plants and animals of the Everglades. This would help the reader want to protect the Everglades.

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