One Bear, Many Places: teacher key

Grizzly Bears, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. A grizzly is one kind of brown bear. See where brown bears live, what they eat and how few cubs they have.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. How many species of brown bear do scientists agree there are?
   • One (answer)
   • Two
   • Five
2. What is most of a brown bear's diet?
   • Meat
   • Plants (answer)
   • Fish
3. Why do some coastal Alaskan brown bears tend to be the largest?
   • They sleep longer in dens
   • They run faster than others
   • They eat salmon rich in fat every summer (answer)
4. When does a female grizzly's embryo start to grow?
   • In late fall (answer)
   • In early spring
   • Right after mating
5. A female that stored too little fat may not have cubs that winter. What does this show?
   • Cubs are born in summer
   • The fat stored in fall matters for having cubs (answer)
   • Mothers eat in the den
6. What does species mean?
   • A winter den
   • A bear's fur
   • A kind of animal (answer)

Words

• species: kind of animal
• hyperphagia: eating a lot
• embryo: unborn baby
• hibernation: deep winter sleep