Brown trout

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/brown-trout

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?Salmo trutta
2. What is the native range?Most of Europe, West Asia, and parts of North Africa
3. What makes the brown trout so adaptable to different waters?They have different ecotypes that live in rivers, lakes, or the sea, and they can change their habits based on the environment.
4. How do brown trout move between freshwater and the ocean?Some are anadromous sea trout that go from rivers to the sea to grow, then return to spawn. Others stay only in freshwater and move between rivers and lakes.

Phenotypic Plasticity: The ability of an organism to change its phenotype in response to environmental changes.
Anadromous Migration: The life cycle pattern of fish that migrate from saltwater to freshwater to reproduce.
Trophic Level: An organism's position in a food chain, indicating what it eats and what eats it.