A Bamboo-Eating Bear: teacher key

Giant Pandas, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. A giant panda is a bear that eats almost nothing but bamboo. Read how it eats, how it looks, how its cubs begin, and where it lives today.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. About how much of a giant panda's diet is bamboo?
   • About 99 percent (answer)
   • About half
   • About a tenth
2. How many hours a day does a giant panda spend finding and eating food?
   • 2 to 4 hours
   • 10 to 16 hours (answer)
   • 20 to 24 hours
3. Which provinces are home to wild giant pandas?
   • Yunnan, Hunan and Hubei
   • Hainan, Jilin and Tibet
   • Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu (answer)
4. A giant panda spends 10 to 16 hours of every day finding and eating food. At most, how many hours of the day are left for everything else?
   • 8 hours
   • 14 hours (answer)
   • 24 hours
5. What does hibernate mean?
   • Climb a tree
   • Sleep through winter (answer)
   • Swim in a river

Words

• nourishment: food's goodness
• upright: straight up
• hibernate: sleep through winter
• provinces: regions of China
• Vulnerable: at risk