Below you will find the answers to the reading lesson about Carnivorous Plants which focused on matching paragraph information questions.
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Answers
- D
- Question Statement: The plant preys on animals that live in water.
- Passage: “the waterwheel plant, is a fascinating rootless, carnivorous, aquatic plant. It generally feeds on small aquatic vertebrates,”.
- C
- Question Statement: The plant is able to tell the difference between prey and inedible items.
- Passage: “The plant is so advanced that it can tell the difference between live stimulus and non-living stimulus.”
- Remember, this isn’t about only matching word for word. This is about matching meaning. This whole passage is about how plants trap their prey (food). This means that “non-living stimulus” refers to something inedible.
- B
- Question Statement: Prey is known to die through submersion in liquid.
- Passage: “The trap contains fluid, produced by the plant, which is used to drown and digest the insects.”
- A
- Question Statement: Prey is drawn to the plant by its appearance.
- Passage: “Insects are attracted by colour, smell and a nectar-like secretion”
- D
- Question Statement: The plant is known for its speed in trapping prey.
- Passage: “The trap closes in only 10 milliseconds, making it one of the fastest examples of plant movement in the animal kingdom.”
- A
- Question Statement: The soporific effect of the nectar can cause prey to tumble into the plant’s trap.
- Passage: Slippery footings, aided in at least one species, by a narcotic drug lacing the nectar, causes insects to fall inside where they die and are digested.
- B
- Question Statement: The plant is capable of trapping creatures large than an average insect.
- Passage: “….some larger species, such as Nepenthes Rafflesiana and Nepenthes Rajah, have been documented to catch small mammals like rats.”
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I hope you found this lesson useful.
All the best, Liz 🙂
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