Super Read! Worksheet 5-2 answers

ANSWERS
Super Read! Worksheet 5.2

1.
a. Answers will vary.
b. This passage introduces the chapter theme, "Response and Reproduction in Plants," by showing how plants adapt to frigid conditions.
c. It is directly stated in the last paragraph: Plants respond to cold by conserving heat or becoming dormant.
d. Answers will vary. Possibilities include racked, frigid, secret, and dormant.

2.
a. The main idea is directly stated in the first sentence. It is the main idea because all the details in the passage support it.
b. The two photographs help readers visualize the main idea: how plants are necessary for the survival of land-dwelling animals.
c. Answers will vary.
d. Possible responses include: How are plants necessary for the survival of land-dwelling animals?

3.
a. Answers will vary.
b. Possible responses include: I visualized the rainforest as a lush area teeming with life.
c. The rainforest is a tremendously important natural resource for both its diversity of plant life and the useful materials and medicines we can make from them.
d. Possible responses include: It helped me visualize the author's main point.

4.
a. Answers will vary.
b. Answers will vary.
c. Possible responses include: The most common type of nonvascular plant, mosses, need water for reproduction. They have a simple way to transport water. Lacking roots, mosses are anchored by rhizoids. They alternate between haploid and dilpoid phases. Of the 14,000 species of mosses, sphagnum are well known as "peat moss" found in an ecosystem called a peat bog.
d. Possible responses include: It helped me focus on the key aspects of the section, such as the common characteristics of mosses and peat bogs.