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1. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. Prairie dogs need many rooms.

b. Prairie dogs like to live together.

c. Prairie dogs live in underground burrows. Prairie Dog Burrows

underground holes
2. What do prairie dogs use to dig burrows?
two to three meters deep
a. their teeth b. their claws c. their tails two holes for going in and out

tunnels and many useful rooms
3. Prairie dog burrows are about meters deep.

a. two to three b. four to five c. six to seven

in underground two rooms holes

4. Why do prairie dogs have listening rooms?

a. to sleep in

b. to care for their babies

c. to listen for danger

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Prairie dogs make underground homes. Their underground homes
5. Prairie dog burrows have long tunnels.
are called burrows . They are about two to three meters deep. There

6. Each burrow has a room for caring for prairie dog babies. are also many rooms and tunnels inside them. The prairie dogs eat,

sleep , and take care of their babies in different rooms. They also

listen for danger in the listening room.
Write the correct answers.

7. Where is the prairie dogs’ listening room?
danger burrows sleep make tunnels
It is close to the exit hole .

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