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When an environment changes

3rd grade (Year 4 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.3-LS4-4, NGSS.3-LS4-3 · England: KS2 Y6 Evolution and inheritance, KS2 Y4 Living things and their habitats

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Question 1
Why are wildlife bridges and tunnels built over and under busy roads?
- A. To give cars more space.
- B. So animals can cross safely between parts of their habitat.
- C. To keep animals in one place.
- D. So animals can watch traffic.
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Question 2
What is a likely effect of this change: a new road is built through a meadow?
- A. animal homes are split and crossing becomes dangerous
- B. frogs and fish that cannot leave may die
- C. polar bears have less time to hunt seals on the ice
- D. woodland birds lose nest sites and many move away
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Question 3
True or false? Habitat loss is one of the biggest threats to wildlife.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 4
After a forest fire, which living things usually return first?
- A. grasses and small fast-growing plants
- B. bears
- C. old oak trees
- D. owls that nest in big trees
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Question 5
What is a likely effect of this change: a pond dries up in a drought?
- A. polar bears have less time to hunt seals on the ice
- B. frogs and fish that cannot leave may die
- C. flowers may bloom before the insects that feed on them hatch
- D. animal homes are split and crossing becomes dangerous
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Question 6
True or false? Some animals survive habitat change because they can eat many different foods.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 7
A wetland is drained to build houses. What can the ducks living there do?
- A. fly to another wetland if one is nearby
- B. grow gills
- C. turn into land animals overnight
- D. live inside the new houses
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Question 8
What is a likely effect of this change: a pond dries up in a drought?
- A. animal homes are split and crossing becomes dangerous
- B. frogs and fish that cannot leave may die
- C. flowers may bloom before the insects that feed on them hatch
- D. woodland birds lose nest sites and many move away
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Question 9
True or false? When a habitat changes, some living things move away.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 10
After a forest fire, which living things usually return first?
- A. owls that nest in big trees
- B. old oak trees
- C. bears
- D. grasses and small fast-growing plants
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Question 11
What is a likely effect of this change: a forest is cut down for farmland?
- A. animal homes are split and crossing becomes dangerous
- B. flowers may bloom before the insects that feed on them hatch
- C. polar bears have less time to hunt seals on the ice
- D. woodland birds lose nest sites and many move away
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Question 12
True or false? Changes to habitats are always caused by people.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 13
Why are wildlife bridges and tunnels built over and under busy roads?
- A. To keep animals in one place.
- B. So animals can cross safely between parts of their habitat.
- C. So animals can watch traffic.
- D. To give cars more space.
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Question 14
What is a likely effect of this change: a forest is cut down for farmland?
- A. woodland birds lose nest sites and many move away
- B. frogs and fish that cannot leave may die
- C. animal homes are split and crossing becomes dangerous
- D. polar bears have less time to hunt seals on the ice
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Question 15
True or false? Some animals survive habitat change because they can eat many different foods.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 16
After a forest fire, which living things usually return first?
- A. owls that nest in big trees
- B. old oak trees
- C. bears
- D. grasses and small fast-growing plants

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