Deep Dives, Long Trips: teacher key

Leopard Seals, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. How deep can a leopard seal dive, and how far can it go? Look at the tagging records, its food and its life.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. About how deep was the deepest recorded leopard seal dive?
   • 12 metres
   • 126 metres
   • 1,256 metres (answer)
2. How long did that dive last?
   • 25 minutes (answer)
   • 3 minutes
   • 2 hours
3. How long is a leopard seal pup nursed?
   • One day
   • About four weeks (answer)
   • Ten years
4. One seal went 46 km and another about 1,700 km. What does that tell you?
   • Tagged seals went very different distances (answer)
   • All seals go the same way
   • Seals do not move
5. What does slender mean in: a slender body?
   • Thin (answer)
   • Heavy
   • Spotted

Words

• tagged: marked to track
• krill: tiny sea animals
• flippers: swim limbs
• slender: thin