Animal Facts
This animal's migration is led by a wise, older female called a matriarch.
What are Mali elephants?
Mali elephants migrate primarily to find this essential resource in the desert.
What is water?
Mali elephants face temperatures as high as this Fahrenheit measurement.
What is 120°F?
In paragraph 4, "parched" most likely means this.
What is extremely dry or without water?
Each animal section in the text follows this organizational pattern.
What is a description followed by "Motive to Move" and "Dangers" subsections?
This animal has toxic skin that discourages predators from eating them.
What are monarch butterflies?
Monarch butterflies migrate south in winter because they cannot survive in these conditions.
What are cold temperatures?
This natural disaster dried up nearly every water source for Mali elephants, requiring government intervention.
What is a drought?
In paragraph 8, the author compares monarch butterflies to this colorful item.
What is confetti?
The author uses this text feature to introduce each new animal migration.
What are subheadings?
This animal migrates every single day rather than seasonally.
What are golden jellyfish?
Golden jellyfish migrate daily to support these organisms that grow in their bodies.
What is algae?
Golden jellyfish must avoid this habitat feature to keep their algae in the sunshine.
What is shade?
In paragraph 13, "algal hitchhikers" refers to organisms that do this.
What is living on jellyfish while traveling with them?
The author compares zebras to this animal from the American West.
What are mustangs?
This animal is described as "the least picky" grazer in the Serengeti.
What are zebras?
Zebras and wildebeests' migration timing is driven by this weather phenomenon.
What is rainfall?
These three predators are mentioned as threats to zebras.
What are lions, crocodiles, and hyenas?
In paragraph 18, the phrase "horse around" is used as this type of language device.
What is a pun or wordplay?
What is figurative language?
What is an idiom?
*Horse around means to play around or mess around.*
According to paragraph 2, this celestial body powers migration events.
**celestial means to be positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy.**
What is the sun?
This animal's young must learn to stand and walk within minutes of being born.
What are wildebeests?
According to the text, animals migrate for these four general reasons.
What are fresh food sources, places to mate, fleeing from predators, and finding shelter from extreme temperatures?
Besides predators and thirst, this dangerous event can kill wildebeests if their herd is startled.
What is a stampede?
In paragraph 23, "barren dust fields" describes plains that are lacking this.
What is vegetation or plant life?
The author uses this literary technique when stating "an elephant never forgets" in paragraph 3.
What is an idiom?