Receptors, Rocks and Returns: teacher key

Honey Badgers, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. From a muscle receptor that resists snake toxins to camera traps on Table Mountain, honey badgers show how much science is still being done on one animal.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. How many times has venom resistance evolved among mammals?
   • Once
   • At least four times (answer)
   • Exactly twice
2. What do the crate and food-box reports count as?
   • Anecdotes not yet formally tested (answer)
   • A completed intelligence test
   • Proof of a new species
3. About how large was an adult male's home range in the southern Kalahari?
   • 126 square kilometers
   • 541 square kilometers (answer)
   • 151 square kilometers
4. Why were the 2024 Table Mountain sightings called an exciting discovery?
   • Honey badgers were thought locally extinct there (answer)
   • Honey badgers had been seen daily
   • The park had just opened
5. What does cavity mean in the text?
   • A hollow space (answer)
   • A kind of food
   • A loud call

Words

• receptor: chemical doorway
• anecdotes: single stories
• phylogenetic: family-tree based
• Carnivora: meat-eater order
• cavity: hollow space