Learning From City Coyotes: teacher key

Coyotes, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. Scientists in and around Chicago follow coyotes that live near people. Their numbers show when coyotes are active, how they cope with roads, how long they live and how far they have spread.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did a 2021 conference study compare?
   • Urban coyotes from Greater Los Angeles and rural coyotes from Fresno County (answer)
   • Coyotes and wolves
   • Coyotes in winter and summer
2. What did Gehrt say coyotes in Chicago definitely learn?
   • How to cross roads (answer)
   • How to climb trees
   • How to swim
3. What did the Edmonton study link an urban diet to?
   • Faster running
   • Poorer average body condition (answer)
   • Larger litters
4. The differences in the 2021 study were not statistically significant. What does that suggest about its trends?
   • They are not firm findings (answer)
   • They were proven
   • They were measured wrongly on purpose
5. What does solitary mean?
   • Active at night
   • Very large
   • Living alone (answer)

Words

• nocturnal: active at night
• solitary: living alone
• scats: animal droppings
• significant: clearly meaningful