The Jaguar Corridor: teacher key

Jaguars, grade 8 edition, written for 8th grade. Jaguars once lived from the southwestern United States down to Argentina. See where they live today, what a place must give them and how a plan called the Jaguar Corridor links their homes.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is the Jaguar Corridor?
   • A zoo in Argentina
   • A plan to link the places where jaguars live (answer)
   • A kind of jaguar
2. Which is one of the three things a jaguar needs to live well in a place?
   • Snow
   • A water supply (answer)
   • A large pack
3. In Brazil, why can a jaguar use only part of its range in the wet season?
   • Only 20 to 30 percent of its dry-season range is above water (answer)
   • It sleeps for months
   • Its cubs need the whole range
4. What does solitary mean in this book?
   • Living alone (answer)
   • Living in a group
   • Living in a tree
5. About how old are jaguars when they are usually independent?
   • 18 days
   • 6 weeks
   • 24 months (answer)

Words

• corridor: linking path
• solitary: living alone
• territorial: guarding an area
• litters: groups of cubs