iTEP TEST-Reading Section Practice

Showily

Pertaining to theater

In a steep way

Heightened

Evolutionary

Instinctive

Preternatural

Flying

Pigeons mate for life

The limitations of pigeon mail

The effect of sunlight on pigeons’ navigation

The effect of the magnetic field on pigeons’ navigation

Not all carrier pigeons can detect the Earth’s magnetic field

All pigeon species can carry messages

Pigeons have more than one nest

The field of carrier pigeon research has recently expanded

Lack of proper research

Changes in natural habitat

Changes in the Earth’s magnetic field

Improvements in communications technology

Can refer to all bird species

Relies only on ‘olfactory’ senses

Is an important quality of certain pigeon species

Was first introduced in Ancient Greece

To demonstrate the great distances that pigeons can fly

To show places where pigeons have been used by armies

To illustrate how the use of carrier pigeons has changed

To give an example of earliest uses of carrier pigeons