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on the Go
By Renée Carver
Genre
Nonfiction
Concept
Patterns in
Nature
Scott Foresman Reading Street 4.3.2
ISBN-13: 978-0-328-46910-9
ISBN-10:
0-328-46910-6
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Summer
This gray whale is in the Arctic Ocean.
The Arctic is a cold place. But in summer,
the water is a little warmer.
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Fall
In summer, whales can find food in
the Arctic. This whale must eat lots of
food now. She won’t eat again for many
months.
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Now it’s late fall. The water is colder.
It’s time for the whales to migrate. That
means they swim from one place to
another place.
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Winter
Now it’s winter. The whales left the
cold waters of the Arctic about 55 days
ago. They migrated south.
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They swam 24 hours a day. The
waters here are much warmer. Mother
whales will have their babies here.
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People come to the warm waters too.
They come to watch the whales. They
take pictures of them. They want to see
a mother whale and her calf.
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The whales stay here all winter.
Biologists study them. They listen to the
whales’ hearts. They watch them play.
They watch how a mother whale takes
care of her calf.
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Spring
Now it’s spring. Something tells the
whales that it’s time to migrate again.
They will go back to the Arctic. They
can find lots of food in the cooler
waters there.
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Biologists count how many mother
and baby whales swim by. See you next
year, whales!
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The whales are back in the Arctic
Ocean. They migrated about 5,500 miles.
Each mother whale used up about 8
tons of whale blubber!
They are ready to eat . . . and eat . . .
and eat.
Reader Response
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1. Why do gray whales travel south in the
fall?
2. What are some reasons biologists might
count how many gray whales migrate
back and forth each year?
3. Describe another pattern in nature that
guides the life of an animal.
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