Life circles: The Penguin and the Cheetah

These animals live in one of the Earth’s cold zones.

What name do we give to these cold zones?

Penguins are birds. All birds hatch from eggs.

When an egg is created it has to be kept warm by an adult bird.

What is this process called?

Young penguins that are approximately 40 days old are often left alone by their parents whilst they return to sea to find food. During this time the youngsters group together to form a creche.

The penguins form these groups to help them keep safe and warm.

Which is the warmest place in the huddle or creche?

The cheetah is a mammal.

In which climate zone is the cheetah most commonly found?

Two students, George and Anne, researched the life cycle of cheetahs.

They compared the life cycle of cheetahs to the life cycle of humans and displayed their findings in a table.

Take your time looking at the information in the table before you look at the question.

Some major events in the life cycle of a cheetah occur before they do so in humans, others occur afterwards.

From the list below, identify three events that occur in the cheetah before they occur in humans.

Have another look at the table.

30 months is approximately 130 weeks.

Approximately how many times longer does it take humans to develop a full set of milk teeth compared to a cheetah? 

Let’s practise a ‘how many times’ question again. Here’s the data.

Eddie is a human. He was 13 months old when he was first able to walk unaided. 13 months is approximately 56 weeks.

Approximately how many times longer did it take Eddie to learn to walk compared to a cheetah?

Have another look at the data.

Why is it important that a cheetah is able to walk by the time it is 3 weeks old?

Select two correct answers from the list.