A changing climate and animals on the move
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Find the average of 18, 24 and 30 degrees.
24 degrees.
2
Write two structural and two behavioural adaptations of an animal you know.
For example fur and webbed feet; hibernating and living in herds.
3
Draw four boxes with arrows for the steppe eagle’s year.
Nest in north, fly south, winter in warm lands, fly north.
4
Explain in two sentences why one cold day does not disprove a warming trend.
One day is weather; the trend is the average over many years.
5
Ask a grown-up which birds they have seen passing through Egypt in spring or autumn.
Answers differ.