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Prabhsimrat Singh Gill from Oakridge international school , Mohali
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat like the continent of Africa. (Asian elephants have smaller, rounded ears.) Elephant ears radiate heat to help keep these large animals cool, but sometimes the African heat is too much. Elephant are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust.

An elephant's trunk is actually a long nose used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things– especially a potential meal. The trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (Asian elephants have one.) Both male and female African elephants have tusks that they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from trees. Males use the tusks to battle one another, but the ivory has also attracted violence of a far more dangerous sort.

Since ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks. This trade is illegal today, but it has not been completely eliminated. Hence, the African elephant population remains endangered. Elephants are herbivores and eat roots, grasses, fruit and bark. An adult elephant can consume up to 300 pounds of food in a single day. These hungry animals do not sleep much, and they roam over great distances while foraging for the large quantities of food that they require to sustain their massive bodies.

Female elephants (cows) live in family herds with their young, but adult males (bulls) tend to roam on their own. Having a baby elephant is a serious commitment. Elephants have a longer pregnancy than any other mammal–almost 22 months. Cows usually give birth to one calf every two to four years. At birth, elephants already weigh some 200 pounds and stand about 3 feet tall. Grown adults can weigh anywhere from two-anda-half to seven tons, and measure up to 13 feet. Premature baby elephants normally don't make it in the world. After a twenty two month gestation period, a mother elephant and her baby form a practically unbreakable bond. The babies dependontheirmother'smilkforthefirsttwo years of life. When a female baby is born, it will normally stay with her mother for her whole life.

African elephants, unlike their Asian relatives, are not easily domesticated. They roam throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforest of central and West Africa. The continent's northernmost elephants are found in Mali's Sahel desert. The small, nomadic herd of Mali elephants migrates in a circular route though the desert in search of water.

The African elephant sprays itself with water because ________.

Aits skin absorbs water to quench its thirst
Bit must keep its tusks moist
Cit is fond of water and enjoys showering when the temperature rises
DAll of these


hey is anyone gonna explain this!

Ans 1:

Anukarsh Dubey from Parvati Radhakrishna Formara school, Mathura
Class : Class 6
Yep, it should be C

Ans 2:

Zaynab Malbarwala from Bai avabai framji petit girls high school, Mumbai
Class : Class 7
Its is C

Ans 3:

Hemanshu VM from Sri Kumaran Public School, Bangalore
Class : Class 6
It should be C

Ans 4:

prabhkhelSingh from Hra international school, Gurdaspur
Class : Class 6
it should be c

Ans 5:

Purvasha Das from The BSS, Kolkata
Class : Class 6
Should be C

Ans 6:

Parthvi Mishra from DPS Nacharam, Hyderabad
Class : Class 6

Ans 7:

Meghna from head start, Bangalore
Class : Class 8
I think the correct answer is C. For the solution, they are giving one of the answers of the Mock Test 1.

Ans 8:

Aeksnsh Joshi from DPS Vasant Kunj , Vasant Kunj
Class : Class 6
The answer is C There is no context in the paragraph that they spray water to keep their tusks moist

Ans 9:

Ajay from Omega, Chennai
Class : Class 6
yes, ans is C

Ans 10:

beena poona from nps, Bengaluru
Class : Class 7

Ans 11:

Kushal from Chirec, Hyderabad
Class : Class 7
The answer is c

Ans 12:

Samhita Garg from Vibgyor High Malad East, Mumbai
Class : Class 6
that is truethe answer should be c

Ans 13:

Arnav Basu from DPS Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar
Class : Class 6
It is Option C. In the paragraph it has been mentioned.

Ans 14:

Bhadra from ISG, Muscat
Class : Class 6
answer is D

Ans 15:

Aparna Rishika Misra from AECS 4, Rawatbhata
Class : Class 6
C tho?

Ans 16:

Lokesh Chandore from VPMS LOHEGAON, Pune
Class : Class 6
THEY GIVING ANSWERS FOR 1st PAPER. WASTE OF RUPEES 500

Ans 17:

Avya Pandey from NPS International, Singapore
Class : Class 7
The answer is C

Ans 18:

Gyanesh Dutta from Anand vidya vihar, Vadodara
Class : Class 6
Should be C, duh

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