River Threats Multiple Choices

Catfish are adaptable fish, but they still face many dangers in the wild. This passage explores natural threats such as birds, larger fish, parasites, and disease, along with environmental challenges like pollution, habitat destruction, drought, and changing water conditions. Readers also learn how overfishing can affect some catfish populations and why clean rivers, lakes, and wetlands are so important for their survival. The passage makes it clear that even hardy animals depend on healthy ecosystems.

This worksheet helps students practice problem-and-solution and cause-and-effect reading structures. They identify the different dangers catfish face and then connect those threats with the adaptations or conservation efforts that can help. Vocabulary such as pollution, parasite, habitat loss, overfishing, and conservation strengthens environmental literacy. The passage also encourages students to think about how human actions can either harm or protect freshwater habitats.