Who Stays and Who Goes: teacher key

Animal Families, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. Some young animals stay in the family for life, and some leave when they grow up. Find out who stays and who goes, from gorillas to lions to chimpanzees.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What do young male elephants usually do when they are teenagers?
   • Lead the herd
   • Leave the family herd (answer)
   • Join a pack
2. Which chimpanzees usually leave the community they were born in?
   • Females (answer)
   • Males
   • Babies only
3. How long do polar bear cubs stay with their mother?
   • A day
   • About two years or a little longer (answer)
   • Ten years
4. Why does a wolf mother not have to leave the den?
   • Pack members bring her food (answer)
   • Her pups are hunting
   • She is a queen
5. Which male animals stay in the group they were born in for life?
   • Elephants
   • Bonobos (answer)
   • Lions
6. What does sentry mean in this book?
   • A lookout guard (answer)
   • A baby meerkat
   • A kind of milk

Words

• community: large group
• nurse: drink milk
• sentry: lookout guard
• orangutans: red-haired apes
• colony: living group