A Hunter With One Favorite Food: teacher key

King Cobras, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. A king cobra's diet is mostly other snakes. Read how its body is built for the job, why its forest homes are shrinking and how its mother ends her watch.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is the diet of a king cobra mainly?
   • Other snakes (answer)
   • Fruit
   • Fish
2. Why are a king cobra's fangs short?
   • They are fixed to its upper jaw (answer)
   • They wear down quickly
   • They are hidden in its hood
3. What makes the sound of the hiss deeper?
   • The hood
   • The lung (answer)
   • The nest
4. Which fact best shows that a king cobra's diet is specialized?
   • Some refuse to eat any snake but one kind (answer)
   • It lays up to 40 eggs
   • It stays near streams
5. What does specialized mean in this book?
   • Focused on a narrow set of things (answer)
   • Very large
   • Active by day

Words

• specialized: narrow, focused
• neurotoxins: nerve poisons
• Elapidae: snake family
• habitats: home places