Mamut

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/mamut

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?Mammuthus
2. What did a Mamut look like?A Mamut was a gigantic, fuzzy elephant bigger than a bus, with long, spirally curved tusks and a thick woolly coat that kept it warm in the cold.
3. What did the Mamut's tusks do?The tusks helped the Mamut defend itself, fight for mates, and pull snow and ice to find food like roots and plants.

Proboscidean: An order of mammals that includes elephants, mammoths, and mastodons.
Keystone Species: A species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance.
Anthropogenic Pressures: Environmental changes or impacts caused by human activities.
Paleoecology: The study of ancient environments and the interactions between organisms and their surroundings in the past.