dictionary skills

This does not hurt the shark, and the remora gets a free ride. In turn, the shark helps keep the remora safe from bigger animals.

Oxpeckers help rhinos in another way. The birds are always watching for danger. When they see something, they sound the alarm. CHIRP! CHIRP! CHIRP! The rhino understands that these repeated sounds mean DANGER!

Which definition best fits the way the word sound is used above?

Land animals help each other, too. A bird called an oxpecker stands on a rhinoceros’s head or back and carefully picks off and eats any insects it finds. The bird gets plenty of food while the rhinoceros gets cleaned of insects that might bother it. 

Which definition best fits the way the word pick is used above?

In the spring, the ants carry the eggs outside again. There they will put them on plants the aphids can eat when they hatch. The ants also look after the aphids and make sure they remain unharmed.

Which definition best fits the way the word spring is used above?

A bird called an oxpecker stands on a rhinoceros’s head or back and carefully picks off and eats any insects it finds. The bird gets plenty of food while the rhinoceros gets cleaned of insects that might bother it.

Which word is an antonym of plenty? 

The clown fish makes its home among the anemone’s tentacles. If a bigger fish tries to attack the clown fish, then the clown fish can hide in the tentacles. The clown fish helps the anemone, too, by cleaning the anemone.

Which word is a synonym for attack?