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9 You Wouldn’t Want to Live on Venus #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading 50 ©Teacher Created Resources Warm-Up Check Your Understanding / 4 Name ______________________________________________ 1. From the context of the passage, what can you infer about the development of young bustards? a. Chicks need the protection of older bustards. b. Bustards aren’t safe from predators in the first year after birth. c. Bustard chicks need to fly for protection against predators. d. all of the above 2. About how much heavier is the male bustard than the female? a. about twenty pounds c. about four times as heavy b. about three pounds d. about one hundred pounds 3. Which of these geographic areas is not a native home to great bustards? a. Eastern Europe c. North America b. Northern Africa d. Asia 4. From the context of the passage, how can you tell that the adult bustards are good parents? a. They feed their young. b. The young stay with their parents for a year. c. The bustards are capable fliers. d. The bustards are usually silent. Some heavy birds, like the ostrich and emu, have lost the ability to fly. The heaviest flying bird is the great bustard. The male of this species can weigh up to forty-six pounds, about the same as a bulldog, while the lighter female can weigh up to eleven pounds. Great bustards live in much of Asia, Eastern Europe and parts of Northern Africa. Some people in these areas even raise bustards on farms. Great bustards eat a lot of plants and especially prefer vegetables, such as kale and cabbages. They will also eat many kinds of insects, as well as spiders, frogs, and small rodents, such as voles. Great bustards are able to fly because they have strong wings that they must flap all the time. Unlike lighter birds, they do not glide through the air and, in fact, would fall like stones if they tried. The male bustard has a wingspan of up to seven feet. Bustards are good runners, too. The main predator of great bustards is the fox, but the bustard can escape it by flying or running because it is faster than a fox. Great bustards are usually silent, but they can bark at other males during fights. The female lays two or three eggs that hatch in a few weeks. A chick weighs about as much as a lemon or an orange when born and can fly by the time it is three months old. It stays with the mother for about a year and lives for approximately ten to fifteen years. Scientifically Speaking Download 10.24 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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