Giants Big and Small: teacher key

The Biggest Animals, grade 2 edition, written for 2nd grade. The biggest whale, fish, bird and lizard, plus a giraffe with a long neck.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is the biggest animal that ever lived, as of November 2026?
   • A dinosaur
   • The blue whale (answer)
   • The elephant
2. What does a blue whale eat?
   • Fish
   • Grass
   • Krill (answer)
3. How does a whale shark get its food?
   • It filters it out of the water (answer)
   • It chews bones
   • It hunts whales
4. Which animal runs instead of flying?
   • The albatross
   • The whale
   • The ostrich (answer)
5. How many neck bones does a giraffe have?
   • Seventy
   • Seven, like a person (answer)
   • Two
6. Which is the largest living lizard?
   • The Komodo dragon (answer)
   • The crocodile
   • The anaconda

Words

• krill: tiny animals
• filters: strains out
• plankton: tiny sea life
• dinosaur: giant reptile