Eat Big, Sleep Long: teacher key

Grizzly Bears, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. A grizzly eats berries, fish and even moths. In the fall it eats far more than usual to get ready for winter.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is hyperphagia?
   • The time in fall when a grizzly eats far more than usual (answer)
   • A bear's winter den
   • A kind of berry
2. What does a bear in its den live on?
   • Fish it catches in the den
   • The fat it stored up during the fall (answer)
   • Berries it keeps in the den
3. Which sense does a grizzly depend on most?
   • Its hearing
   • Its touch
   • Its sense of smell (answer)
4. Grizzlies eat berries, fish, ants and moths. What does this show?
   • They eat many kinds of food (answer)
   • They eat only plants
   • They eat only one food
5. What is carrion?
   • A kind of root
   • An animal a bear finds already dead (answer)
   • A bear's den
6. How long do cubs stay with their mother?
   • About two weeks
   • About ten years
   • About two to three years (answer)

Words

• hyperphagia: eating a lot
• carrion: dead animal food
• hibernation: deep winter sleep
• marmots: furry digging animals
• bulbs: plant parts