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2. Asian elephants have one small “finger” at the end of their trunks for grasping. African elephants have two “fingers.”
One of these statements is false. Which one?
1. The first elephants appeared about 60 million years ago.
4. There are more than 100,000 muscles in the trunk, making it very flexible, and strong enough to lift whole trees.
3. Elephants’ trunks
contain bones similar to the human spine.
One early relative, called Moeritherium (meer-uh-THEER-ee-um), was only about 2 feet (0.6 m) tall and had no trunk.
Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have different structures to help them survive.
ELEPHANTS SCIENTISTS TRUNKS SOCKS ASIAN WRINKLED
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
The skin of an elephant is rough and wrinkled. In fact, the creases in the lower part of their legs can be used to tell elephants apart. Like fingerprints, every elephant has its very own crease pattern.
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Which picture comes next in each pattern below?
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AFRICA LARGE EARS SKIN PAGES COOL PATTERN TREES
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Standards Link: Math/Reasoning: Extend simple paterns.
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