Animal migration

High school (ages 12+)
Animals & Nature

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/animal-migration

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the scientific name (example: arctic tern)?Sterna paradisaea
2. What is the annual distance (example: arctic tern)?Up to 44,000 miles (70,000 km) round trip
3. Why do animals travel long distances?Animals move to find food, water, and safe places, especially when winter makes resources scarce or heat is too hot.
4. How do animals know where to go?They use the sun, stars, Earth's magnetic field, smells, and learned routes to navigate across big landscapes.

Phenology: The study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life.
Keystone Species: A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed, the ecosystem would change drastically.
Anthropogenic: Originating in human activity.