Lonely Cliffs, Large Bones: teacher key

Bearded Vultures, grade 7 edition, written for 7th grade. Bearded vultures live in lonely mountain places in Europe, Asia and Africa. They eat bones, build several nests and were once gone from the Alps.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Where do bearded vultures live in Africa?
   • Only on the coast
   • In the Ethiopian highlands and parts of Uganda, Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa (answer)
   • Only in deserts
2. What does a bearded vulture use to help it search for remains of dead animals?
   • Rising air along mountain slopes (answer)
   • Tracks in the mud
   • Loud calls
3. Which is the largest breeding bird of the Alps?
   • The bearded vulture (answer)
   • The sparrow
   • The robin
4. How many nests can a pair build?
   • One
   • Up to five (answer)
   • Up to fifty
5. Why does it matter that vultures remove dead animals quickly?
   • It limits the spread of disease (answer)
   • It makes nests bigger
   • It makes rain
6. In the text, what is a carcass?
   • A mountain path
   • A dead animal (answer)
   • A nest

Words

• carcass: dead animal
• gorges: deep valleys
• highlands: high land
• slopes: hillsides
• breeding: raising young