Weekly Reading Skills Practice
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Weekly Reading Skills Practice
A Clever Creature of the Sea
An octopus has eight arms and lives in the ocean. It may look unusual, but its body helps it meet the challenges of life underwater. An octopus can alter the color and pattern of its skin. This change helps it blend in with its surroundings, such as a patch of sand or a rocky reef. Staying hard to see can help an octopus avoid animals that might try to catch it. Octopuses can also learn how to get to food. In one study, an octopus worked out how to open a container to reach a meal inside. Some octopuses carry objects, including shells, and use them to make a place to hide. These actions show that octopuses can respond to problems in clever ways. If danger comes close, an octopus may release a cloud of ink into the water. The dark cloud can distract a pursuer while the octopus moves away. With camouflage, learning, and a quick escape trick, an octopus has several ways to deal with life in the ocean.
Check Your Understanding
- Octopuses use several abilities to handle challenges in the ocean.
- All ocean animals hide among rocks.
- Octopuses look for food only in containers.
- The ocean is a dangerous place for every animal.
- An animal chasing the octopus
- A place where an octopus rests
- A piece of food in a container
- A pattern on an octopus’s skin
- Share information about ways octopuses respond to challenges
- Tell an imaginary story about an octopus’s adventure
- Give directions for keeping an octopus as a pet
- Convince readers to visit a rocky reef
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