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Questions About Wildlife

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Wild Animal Study: Mammals & Fish

Specific Questions: Mammals
  • Which of the featured species make use of dens?
  • In which of the featured species do both parents help raise the young?
  • In which of the featured species is the male of the species a threat to the young?
  • In which of the featured species does the male for the most part ignore the young?
  • Which species is the most numerous in the Riverwood Ecosystem? Which is least? Which is absent?
  • How are the various species well suited for their environment?
 
Specific questions: Animals
  • How can the animals in these videos be classified?
  • What does each group of animals have in common? (I.e. covering, body parts, food selection, needs)
  • Which animals are shown using plants for food?
  • How do the animals move about?
  • Which animals do you think might be found where you live?
  • Which animals migrate north and south? Why do they do this?
 
Specific questions: White-tailed Deer
White-tail Deer Videos
  • How are white-tail deer adapted to their environment?
  • Why are fawns spotted?
  • When are fawns born? Why then?
  • What habitats do whitetails prefer?
  • What is the rut?
  • What are antlers? How do they grow?
  • Do whitetails migrate?
Specific questions: Salmon Series​
Salmon Videos
Specific questions: Salmon Series
The videos focusing on the Credit River salmon represent the first major themed-set of videos in this series. Many of the questions posed here are answered in the support material available on line or in the video.  To aid students I’ve included a series of videos on British Columbia’s salmon run so that they could compare and contrast the two environments.
 
Questions on the Credit River Salmon Run
  • How many types of salmon are there in North America?
  • How can these species be grouped?
  • What is the major difference between Atlantic and Pacific salmon?
  • What is the salmon migration?
  • When does it occur?
  • What is spawning? Milt? Redd?
  • When were Chinook salmon introduced into the Great Lakes
  • Why were Chinook salmon introduced into the Great Lakes?
  • What other salmon were introduced into the Great Lakes?
  • How did people think they could manage them? Did this prove to be the case? Why? Why not?
  • What happened to the Ontario salmon?
  • What are the problems with reintroducing them?
  • Can these salmon be consumed?
  • What effect do they have on the river’s ecosystem?
  • What are the fishing regulations around salmon?

Questions on Brown Bear/Red Salmon and Credit River Salmon
  • When the salmon return to their native streams and rivers on the west coast to spawn what predators to they meet on their journey? In the ocean? Along the river?
  • What physical barriers do the west coast salmon face as they journey up stream?
  • When the salmon return to their native streams and rivers that feed Lake Ontario to spawn what predators to they meet on their journey?
  • What physical barriers do the Lake Ontario salmon face as they journey up stream?
  • What would a food chain look like for west coast salmon’s ecosystem?
  • What would a food chain look like for Lake Ontario salmon’s ecosystem?
  • Why are salmon important to their ecosystems?
  • Why are healthy salmon runs important to people?
  • How would the Lake Ontario’s salmon ecosystem have looked 200 years ago? 

 

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      • Answers to Grade 1-3 Questions
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      • Notes on Salmon
      • Answers to "Bird's Nests"
      • Birds at a Feeder Answers
      • Bird Feeder Resources
      • Answers About Wildlife
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