wunder beta🦋 Animal Migration
Follow the incredible journeys animals make, terns flying pole to pole, monarchs crossing a continent, whales swimming between oceans, and learn why they travel so far.
What you’ll learn
- What Is Migration?Define migration as a regular long journey and understand why animals migrate: food, breeding, and the seasons.Migration is a regular, repeated journey animals make and then return from, usually with the seasons. Animals migrate to find food when their home runs short, to raise babies in safer places, and to escape harsh weather. They find their way using the sun, stars, landmarks, and Earth's magnetic field.
- Great Journeys Through the SkyLearn the routes of two famous flying migrators, the Arctic tern and the monarch butterfly, and how birds navigate.Flying animals make some of the longest journeys on Earth. The Arctic tern travels from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, while monarch butterflies fly from North America to warm forests in Mexico over several generations. Migrating birds find their way using the sun, stars, and Earth's magnetic field.
- Journeys Over Land and SeaLearn how wildebeest and humpback whales migrate over land and sea, and why the risky journeys are worth it.Migration also happens on land and in the sea. Over a million wildebeest march across the Serengeti following the rains and fresh grass, while humpback whales swim between cold polar feeding grounds and warm tropical breeding waters. Though the journeys are long and risky, they give animals more food and safer places to raise their young.
Questions this course answers
What is migration?
Migration is a regular long journey that animals make from one place to another and back, usually with the seasons.
Which of these is a reason animals migrate?
Animals migrate to find food, to breed in a safer place, and to escape harsh weather.
The Arctic tern is famous for flying between which two places?
The Arctic tern breeds in the Arctic in the north and flies all the way to the Antarctic in the south each year.
Where do monarch butterflies travel to spend the winter?
Monarchs fly thousands of miles south from North America to warm forests in Mexico for the winter.
Why do more than a million wildebeest march across the Serengeti each year?
Wildebeest follow the rains around the Serengeti to reach fresh green grass to eat.
Why do humpback whales swim from cold polar seas to warm tropical waters?
Humpbacks feed in cold polar waters, then travel to warm, calm tropical seas to breed and raise their calves safely.
Grounded in trusted sources
- National Geographic Kids
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- NOAA Fisheries
- Britannica Kids
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