Staying Warm in the Ice: teacher key

The Arctic and Antarctica, grade 3 edition, written for 3rd grade. How do animals keep warm in the cold? Find out how polar bears, seals and penguins live where it is icy.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is a glacier?
   • A kind of seal
   • A slow-moving river of ice (answer)
   • A warm wind
2. Where does a mother polar bear have her cubs?
   • In a den in the snow (answer)
   • In the ocean
   • On a glacier
3. How do seals keep warm in cold water?
   • By huddling
   • With a thick layer of blubber (answer)
   • By digging dens
4. What do emperor penguins do to keep warm?
   • Huddle together (answer)
   • Dig dens
   • Swim to the Arctic
5. Why would you NOT see a polar bear in Antarctica?
   • It is too warm
   • They cannot swim
   • Polar bears do not live there (answer)

Words

• blubber: thick body fat
• glacier: river of ice
• narwhal: tusk whale
• continent: huge land