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How animal parents help their young survive

1st grade (Year 2 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.1-LS1-2 · England: KS1 Y2 Animals, including humans

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  1. Question 1

    True or false? Only human parents look after their babies.

    • A. True
    • B. False

  2. Question 2

    How is this parent helping its young: an otter teaching pups to swim?

    • A. feeding
    • B. protecting
    • C. teaching

  3. Question 3

    Baby birds open their beaks wide and cheep loudly. Why?

    • A. to cool down
    • B. to practise flying
    • C. to scare away their parents
    • D. to tell their parents they are hungry

  4. Question 4

    True or false? Young animals make sounds to get their parents' help.

    • A. True
    • B. False

  5. Question 5

    How is this parent helping its young: a cow letting her calf drink milk?

    • A. feeding
    • B. protecting
    • C. teaching

  6. Question 6

    A human baby cries in the night. What is it doing?

    • A. telling everyone to go to sleep
    • B. practising singing
    • C. nothing; crying has no meaning
    • D. telling a parent it needs something, like food or comfort

  7. Question 7

    True or false? Only human parents look after their babies.

    • A. True
    • B. False

  8. Question 8

    How is this parent helping its young: a cat showing kittens how to hunt?

    • A. feeding
    • B. protecting
    • C. teaching

  9. Question 9

    Some animals, like sea turtles, never meet their parents. How do the young survive?

    • A. Other turtles feed them every day.
    • B. They are born able to find food and the sea by themselves.
    • C. People raise all of them.
    • D. They stay in the egg for ever.

  10. Question 10

    True or false? Only human parents look after their babies.

    • A. True
    • B. False

  11. Question 11

    How is this parent helping its young: a hen sheltering chicks under her wings?

    • A. feeding
    • B. protecting
    • C. teaching

  12. Question 12

    Emperor penguin dads hold the egg on their feet for weeks in the Antarctic winter. Why?

    • A. because the egg is scared
    • B. to hide it from the Sun
    • C. to keep it off the ice and warm until it hatches
    • D. to make the egg grow bigger

  13. Question 13

    True or false? Many animal parents feed their young.

    • A. True
    • B. False

  14. Question 14

    How is this parent helping its young: a hen sheltering chicks under her wings?

    • A. feeding
    • B. protecting
    • C. teaching

  15. Question 15

    Baby birds open their beaks wide and cheep loudly. Why?

    • A. to scare away their parents
    • B. to tell their parents they are hungry
    • C. to practise flying
    • D. to cool down

  16. Question 16

    True or false? Only human parents look after their babies.

    • A. True
    • B. False

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  1. False
  2. teaching
  3. to tell their parents they are hungry
  4. True
  5. feeding
  6. telling a parent it needs something, like food or comfort
  7. False
  8. teaching
  9. They are born able to find food and the sea by themselves.
  10. False
  11. protecting
  12. to keep it off the ice and warm until it hatches
  13. True
  14. protecting
  15. to tell their parents they are hungry
  16. False