An Octopus With Eight Clever Arms: teacher key

Giant Pacific Octopuses, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. How smart is a giant Pacific octopus? It can learn to open jars and tell people apart. Read about its body, its den and its eggs.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What can giant Pacific octopuses learn to open?
   • Doors
   • Jars (answer)
   • Boxes of sand
2. What is the only hard part of its body?
   • Its beak (answer)
   • Its arms
   • Its hearts
3. How many eggs does a female lay?
   • About 200
   • About 2,000
   • About 20,000 to 100,000 (answer)
4. What can giant Pacific octopuses tell apart?
   • Colors of the sea
   • Individual people (answer)
   • Night from day
5. A giant Pacific octopus lives alone. What does that show?
   • It is a social animal
   • It is not a social animal (answer)
   • It lives on land
6. What does prey mean in: few animals prey on it?
   • Hunt for food (answer)
   • Sing to
   • Hide from

Words

• suckers: grippy cups
• beak: hard mouth
• plankton: drifting life
• prey: hunt for food