Yips at Dusk: teacher key

Coyotes, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. Coyotes began spreading across North America around 1920 and have moved into cities and Central America. Find out how they hunt, eat, talk and raise pups.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did coyotes cross in 2010?
   • The Panama Canal (answer)
   • The Moon
   • A desert
2. How do scientists find out where coyotes go?
   • They ask farmers
   • They put GPS collars on coyotes (answer)
   • They count howls
3. How many pups does a coyote family often have at a time?
   • One or two
   • Ten to twelve
   • Five to seven (answer)
4. Coyotes live in forests, deserts and cities. What does that show?
   • They are adaptable (answer)
   • They only eat fruit
   • They only live alone
5. What does opportunistic mean when it describes how coyotes eat?
   • Eating only at noon
   • Taking the food that is easy to find (answer)
   • Eating only fruit
6. What does hybridizing mean?
   • Howling at dusk
   • Digging a den
   • Having pups with domestic dogs (answer)

Words

• adaptable: able to change
• opportunistic: taking easy chances
• carrion: dead animals
• hybridizing: mixing kinds
• dusk: early evening