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Penguins




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. Watch the video about Emperor penguins.
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. Are these statements TRUE or FALSE?
1. By May, the warmer temperates allow the penguin collony to break out.�� TRUE � FALSE
�� 2. Mothers take care of the chicks right away.�� TRUE � FALSE
�� 3. Males may lose up to half their body weight during the winter.�� TRUE �FALSE
�� 4. Chicks start eating as soon as they hatch.��� TRUE � FALSE
�� 5. After 4 months of fasting there is nothing in the male's stomach.��� TRUE � FALSE
�� 6. The father produces a protein to feed the chick.��� TRUE � FALSE
�� 7. The protein keeps the baby alive for a whole month.�� TRUE � FALSE
�� 8. Mothers reappear just in time.��� TRUE �� FALSE
�� 9.�The male penguin�gladly hands over�his chick to the mother.��� TRUE �� FALSE
�� 10. During the next 5 months the chick will eat 50 kilos of food.��� TRUE � FALSE
�� 11. In only one�helping, the chick can eat one third of its body weight.��� TRUE �� FALSE
�� 12.�Now male penguins can head out to the ocean to fish.��� TRUE � FALSE
�� 13. The ice edge is very close to the breeding ground.�� TRUE � FALSE
�� 14. Emperor penguins walk and�toboggan through the snow�on their way to the ice edge.�� TRUE � FALSE
�� 15. Only male penguins fish.� The female stays with the chick.�� TRUE �� FALSE
�� 16. Each trip involves thousands of kilometres in search of food.�� TRUE � FALSE

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. Fill in the blanks with the missing word.

WORD BANK�

birds -�breathe - cold - fat - feathers - fly
food - hard - hunt - largest - predator - seafood - skin
small - snow - underwater - warm - water - white - winter �
Penguins are aquactic �that live in the southern hemisphere.� They are not able to �and spend most of their time , searching for .
Penguins cannot underwater but are able to hold their breath for a long time. Whenever they need to breathe, they leap out of the .�
Since penguins live in very places they need to stay .� A thick�layer of , called "blubber",�under their , protects them from the freezing temperature.� They also have two layers of : soft and fluffy "down" feathers and outer waterproof feathers.�
Penguins eat .� Fish is their main diet but they also eat squid, crustaceans and krill, which are very �shrimplike animals.
Several marine animals, such as leopard seals,� sea lions and orcas like to penguins.� The penguins' colours, black and , are their protection against predators.� Their white bellies blend with the and sunlight making it difficult for an underwater to see them.� The black back also offers protection as it blends against the dark ocean waters making it to spot them from above.
Penguins are found on the coasts os South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Galapagos� Islands.� The Emperor penguin, the �penguin species, is the only one that breed and nest in Antarctica through the very cold .
. Click on the name of each�marine predator.

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. Vocabulary: Match the word to its meaning.
1. aquactic� going without food
2. to toboggan living in water
3. chick an area where animals breed
4. fasting emerge
5. breeding ground� to slide
6. hatch a natural substance
7. one helping start out, leave
8. head out� an amount of food
9. protein give away, devolve
10. hand over a baby bird
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