Earth’s Cleaning Crew by Heather Price-Wright
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Vocabulary: ecosystems, vertebrate, carcass, extinction, infected, disease, species
Depth of Knowledge Level 1-2
1. What are vultures often seen as?
2. What do vultures feast on?
3. How many vertebrates feast on dead animals?
a. Who is the vertebrate?
4. What is the name of the vulture researcher at the North Carolina Zoo?
5. What type of role do vultures play?
6. What type of scavengers do dead animals attract?
7. What type of insects do dead animals attract?
8. What do carcasses carry/have?
9. What important feature do vultures have that other animals do not have when eating a carcass?
10. Which organization is saying that 7 of 11 vulture species in Africa are in danger of extinction?
11. Farmers and Ranchers in Africa have a goal to kill large predators that attack their livestock?
12. How do farmers and ranchers kill vultures?
13. How many vultures are killed with a poisoned carcass?
14. Farmers and ranchers are not the only ones killing vultures. There is another group responsible, who are they?
15. Why do poachers kill vultures?
16. Who says governments need to work together to stop poaching?
Depth of Knowledge Level 3-4
17. What conclusion can be drawn about farmers, ranchers, and poachers killing vultures? (Target 1 & Target 8 Key Details)
18. Which sentence in the text best summarizes the central idea of the text? Write the sentence and explain your reasoning. (Target 2 & Target 9 Central Idea)
19. Hyenas, jackals, and wolves are scavengers. What word did the author use in the 3rd paragraph of the text to represent that idea? (Target 7 & Target 14 Language Use)
20. What is the best reason the author/writer chose to end the article with a positive conclusion about the vultures? (Target 6 & Target 13 Text Structure & Features)
21. What inference can be made about how the authors/writers of the first article, “Earth’s Cleaning Crew” by Heather Price-Wright, and the second article, “Rise of the Octopus” by Melanie Kletter, feel about predators? (Target 4 & Target 11 Reasoning & Evidence)
22. The cephalopods are predators, but the hyenas and lions are scavengers. Do the the creatures face the same extinction problem today? Explain your reasoning (Target 4, Target 11, Target 5 and Target 12)
Go to Answer Key
Go to Directory of Articles & Books
Vocabulary: ecosystems, vertebrate, carcass, extinction, infected, disease, species
Depth of Knowledge Level 1-2
1. What are vultures often seen as?
2. What do vultures feast on?
3. How many vertebrates feast on dead animals?
a. Who is the vertebrate?
4. What is the name of the vulture researcher at the North Carolina Zoo?
5. What type of role do vultures play?
6. What type of scavengers do dead animals attract?
7. What type of insects do dead animals attract?
8. What do carcasses carry/have?
9. What important feature do vultures have that other animals do not have when eating a carcass?
10. Which organization is saying that 7 of 11 vulture species in Africa are in danger of extinction?
11. Farmers and Ranchers in Africa have a goal to kill large predators that attack their livestock?
12. How do farmers and ranchers kill vultures?
13. How many vultures are killed with a poisoned carcass?
14. Farmers and ranchers are not the only ones killing vultures. There is another group responsible, who are they?
15. Why do poachers kill vultures?
16. Who says governments need to work together to stop poaching?
Depth of Knowledge Level 3-4
17. What conclusion can be drawn about farmers, ranchers, and poachers killing vultures? (Target 1 & Target 8 Key Details)
18. Which sentence in the text best summarizes the central idea of the text? Write the sentence and explain your reasoning. (Target 2 & Target 9 Central Idea)
19. Hyenas, jackals, and wolves are scavengers. What word did the author use in the 3rd paragraph of the text to represent that idea? (Target 7 & Target 14 Language Use)
20. What is the best reason the author/writer chose to end the article with a positive conclusion about the vultures? (Target 6 & Target 13 Text Structure & Features)
21. What inference can be made about how the authors/writers of the first article, “Earth’s Cleaning Crew” by Heather Price-Wright, and the second article, “Rise of the Octopus” by Melanie Kletter, feel about predators? (Target 4 & Target 11 Reasoning & Evidence)
22. The cephalopods are predators, but the hyenas and lions are scavengers. Do the the creatures face the same extinction problem today? Explain your reasoning (Target 4, Target 11, Target 5 and Target 12)
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