Wild Animal Study: Mammals & Fish
Specific Questions: Mammals
Specific questions: Animals
Specific questions: White-tailed Deer
White-tail Deer Videos
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
Questions on Brown Bear/Red Salmon and Credit River Salmon
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?
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?