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Class 4 The World Around Us — Beaks, claws and fins

Read an animal's body like a set of tools: work out from a beak, a claw, a snout or a foot what its owner eats and where it gets about.

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Before you start

A turtle in the shallows, with its shell, its head and its spread feet.

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  1. 1. The shell
  2. 2. The webbed feet
  3. 3. The head

Two different jobs, two different parts. The shell is armour and does nothing to help the turtle move; the feet are spread and joined by skin, which pushes far more water than a bare foot would.

  1. 1.What does the chapter say a turtle's strong shell is for?

    • a) Storing water for dry days
    • b) Keeping it warm in winter
    • c) Helping it float
    • d) Keeping it safe

  2. 2.What do fish have to swim with?

    • a) Webbed feet
    • b) Long tails alone
    • c) Fins
    • d) Flippers

  3. 3.The chapter's table of animals in and around water fills in how each one moves. Sort them.

    Groups: Swims · Walks · Jumps

    • Crab
    • Frog
    • Fish

  4. 4.Which bird does the chapter give as its example of a colourful one?

    • a) The owl
    • b) The sparrow
    • c) The peacock
    • d) The eagle

  5. 5.What does the chapter say you can guess about a bird by observing its beak and claws?

    • a) How old it is
    • b) How far it flies each day
    • c) Where it builds its nest
    • d) Its eating habits

  6. 6.The gharial is a kind of crocodile. What does the chapter say its long, narrow, pointed snout is for?

    • a) Pulling plants from the riverbed
    • b) Catching fish
    • c) Digging nests in the sand
    • d) Breaking open shells

  7. 7.A sunbird's beak is long and thin so that it can reach right into a flower. What sweet liquid does it drink from there?

  8. 8.Match each animal to the body part the chapter gives it, and the job that part does.

    • Elephant
    • Sparrow
    • Eagle
    • Sunbird
    • A sharp curved beak and claws, for catching prey
    • A long trunk, for taking up food and water
    • A short, strong beak, for cracking seeds
    • A long beak, for drinking nectar

Answer key — Class 4 The World Around Us — Beaks, claws and fins

  1. 1. d) Keeping it safe
  2. 2. c) Fins
  3. 3. Fish → Swims; Crab → Walks; Frog → Jumps
  4. 4. c) The peacock
  5. 5. d) Its eating habits
  6. 6. b) Catching fish
  7. 7. nectar
  8. 8. Elephant → A long trunk, for taking up food and water; Sparrow → A short, strong beak, for cracking seeds; Eagle → A sharp curved beak and claws, for catching prey; Sunbird → A long beak, for drinking nectar