Eight Arms, Clever Skin: teacher key

Giant Pacific Octopuses, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. A giant Pacific octopus can change its skin to blend in and squeeze into tight spaces. Learn where it lives, how it hunts and how smart it is.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What can a giant Pacific octopus change besides its color?
   • Its beak
   • The texture of its skin (answer)
   • Its number of arms
2. About how many suckers does a female have?
   • 2,240 (answer)
   • 224
   • 22
3. Where do giant Pacific octopuses live?
   • Only in rivers
   • From southern California to Alaska and across the Pacific to Japan (answer)
   • Only in the Atlantic
4. How many times does a female breed in her life?
   • Once (answer)
   • Ten times
   • Every year
5. Octopuses can learn to open jars. What does that suggest?
   • They cannot learn
   • They can learn new things (answer)
   • They only eat at night
6. What does texture mean in: it can change the texture of its skin?
   • How the skin feels or looks to touch (answer)
   • How old the skin is
   • How loud it is

Words

• texture: how it feels
• suckers: grippy cups
• plankton: drifting life
• den: hiding place