Alejandro's Gift- Part 2- Unit 4, L:3

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• Arizona Pocket mouse

• large ears keep it cool, large feet to run fast

• Black-Tailed Jack Rabbit

• spends time in underground burrows (up to 150 ft deep), live alone

• bobcat

• has a "mask" and lives in underground burrows, is fierce

• badger

• wildcat, only found in North America, eats small mammals, barks when scared

• Botta's Pocket Gopher

• eats many kinds of seeds, can hibernate

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Click on the Southwestern states.

• Colorado

• Arizona

• New Mexico

• Utah

• Virginia

Match- use page 393 of your anthology for the information.

• Desert Tortoise

• run with tails down, up to 40 MPH and leap up to 14 feet!

• Collared Peccary

• travel in large groups, eat lizards and insects but mostly fruit

• Coyote

• eats prickly pear including the spines, looks like a wild pig

• Coatis

• can grow to 15 inches, stores water in puch beneath shell

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Match- use page 393 of your anthology for the information.

• Costa's Hummingbird

• can hover, purple throated and only 3 and 1/2 inches long

• Curve-Billed Thrasher

• feeds on large insects, no bigger than a sparrow

• Collared Peccary

• eats prickly pear including the spines, looks like a wild pig

• Elf Owl

• red eyes, long bill

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Match- you will need to use page 394 of the textbook to complete this question.

• Gambel's Quail

• eats snakes, lizards and scorpions, rarely flies

• Great Roadrunner

• large tear dropped-shaped feather on head,

  cackles

• Gila Woodpecker

• Males red

  females brown

  patterned in black and white stripes

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Match- you will need to use page 394 of the textbook to complete this question.

• gray fox

• only canids that can climb, mostly nocturnal (night animals)

• Mesquite

• feeds on mesquite and other desert plants, lives in scrublands

• Harris's Antelope Squirrel

• spiny tree, grows in large thickets

• Merriam's Kangaroo Rat

• gets water from the food they eat, well camouflaged

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Match- use page 395 of the anthology

• sage sparrows

• name comes from cooing, its mating call

• Phainopepla

• snatches mistletoe berries out of the air,

  has elegant crest on its head

• Mourning Dove

• found in dry hills and sagebrush,

  small brown birds with white ring eyes

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Match- use page 395 of the anthology

• Saguaro

• provides fruit for many desert creatures, a giant cactus

• White-Throated Rat

• can run 35 MPH and leap 25 feet,

  eats grass, twigs and fruit

• Mule Deer

• uses cactus needles to hide the entrance to its home

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9