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What question did scientist have?

• How many penguins live in Antartica?

• How many emperor penguins live in Antartica?

• Where is Antartica?

• How do you count penguins?

How do scientist count penguins?

• They group them by 10's.

• They just start counting.

• They used a camera on a satellite in space. Then zoomed in on those locations to count the penguins.

• They walked around all of Antarctica until they were all counted.

Were scientist able to see penguins when they first looked at the satellite images?

• Yes, they saw many!

• No, penguins are too small to see from space.

• Yes, they could only see a few penguins though.

• No, they saw polar bears instead.

When they scientist saw the guano. What did that tell them?

• That a penguin had just layed an egg.

• That penguins had just finished eating.

• That penguins were nearby.

• That a penguin chick had just hatched.

How many penguins did the scientist count?

• About 300,000

• Almost 600,000

• 100,000

• Around 1 million

Which penguins live in Africa?

• Emperor

• Rockhopper

• Black-footed

• Fairy

Which penguins lived in two different places?

• Rockhopper

• Emperpor

• Fairy

• Black-Footed

Where do both rockhopper AND emperor penguins live?

• Australia

• South America

• Antartica

• Africa

Which continent do penguins not live on?

• Australia

• North America

• South America

• Africa

Magellanic penguins live in one of the same places as a rockhopper penguin, but NOT emperor penguins. Where do they live?

• Antartica

• South America

• North America

• Africa