When Giants Were Hunted: teacher key

The Biggest Animals, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. Blue whales, polar bears and other record-holders, and what happened when people hunted the biggest.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What happened to blue whales in the 1900s?
   • They all moved to land
   • They were hunted almost to extinction (answer)
   • They grew smaller
2. What does endangered mean?
   • Very loud
   • Very old
   • At risk of dying out (answer)
3. Which bear is the longest, according to most experts?
   • The polar bear (answer)
   • The panda
   • The black bear
4. Why is it good news that hunting blue whales is banned?
   • They got faster
   • They moved north
   • Their numbers are slowly rising (answer)
5. What is the largest living lizard?
   • The ostrich
   • The Komodo dragon (answer)
   • The sunfish

Words

• extinction: dying out
• endangered: at risk
• predator: hunting animal
• tentacles: long arms