Bone Eater of the Peaks: teacher key

Bearded Vultures, grade 2 edition, written for 2nd grade. A bearded vulture lives in the mountains and eats mostly bones. It drops big bones onto rocks and helps clean up nature.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Where does a bearded vulture live?
   • In the mountains (answer)
   • In a swamp
   • In a city
2. What does it do with a bone that is too big to swallow?
   • Buries it
   • Gives it away
   • Drops it onto rocks (answer)
3. What color is a young bearded vulture?
   • Orange
   • Dark brown (answer)
   • White
4. A bearded vulture eats what other animals leave behind. What is it doing for nature?
   • Making noise
   • Planting seeds
   • Helping clean up (answer)
5. In the text, what does bald mean?
   • With no feathers (answer)
   • Very big
   • Orange

Words

• lammergeier: its other name
• glide: fly smoothly
• ledge: rock shelf
• bald: with no feathers