The City Coyote Study: teacher key

Coyotes, grade 10 edition, written for 10th grade. Scientists in Cook County, Illinois, study how coyotes live near people. See when they are active, how much space they use, what they eat, how long they survive and how they spread.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did researcher Paul Morey examine to learn what coyotes eat?
   • 1,429 scats (answer)
   • Old maps
   • Fruit trees
2. In natural areas, when do coyotes tend to be active?
   • Only at night
   • In the day or at dawn and dusk (answer)
   • Only in winter
3. What did the 2024 study find about coyote survival and human population density?
   • No link at all
   • A negative link
   • A positive link (answer)
4. In the Cook County study, coyotes as a population avoided areas associated with humans. What kind of places did they keep away from?
   • Areas people use (answer)
   • Parks
   • Rivers
5. What does solitary mean?
   • Living alone (answer)
   • Active at night
   • Very large

Words

• nocturnal: active at night
• solitary: living alone
• urbanization: growth of cities
• scats: animal droppings
• agriculture: farming