A Family Is a Team: teacher key

Animal Families, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. Wolves bring food to a mother in her den, and a meerkat acts as a lookout for the mob. See how animal families work as teams.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What does a meerkat sentry do?
   • Leads the herd
   • Warns the others of danger (answer)
   • Cares for the queen
2. Why can a wolf mother stay in the den with her small pups?
   • Pups hunt for her
   • She eats alone
   • Pack members bring her food (answer)
3. Who leads an African elephant herd?
   • A silverback
   • The matriarch (answer)
   • A sentry
4. How do young tigers learn to hunt?
   • By copying their mother (answer)
   • From a silverback
   • From the pack
5. In a naked mole-rat colony, who has the babies?
   • All the workers
   • A sentry
   • One female, the queen (answer)
6. What does colony mean in this book?
   • A living group (answer)
   • A hunting trip
   • A lookout

Words

• sentry: lookout guard
• matriarch: female herd leader
• silverback: big male gorilla
• colony: living group
• nurse: drink milk