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Subject: Year 6 Literacy
Sheet: Grizzly bear
Grizzly Bear
Quick facts
Diet: Omnivore
Life span in the wild: 25 years
Size: 1.5 – 2.5 m
Weight: 365 kg
Status: Least concern
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) is a huge, powerful predator that can be found
in North America, Europe and Asia.
Grizzlies have a large hump on their backs and sharp long claws. Grizzlies are solitary
animals but they do gather in large numbers by rivers when the salmon swims
upstream to spawn (lay their eggs).
Grizzlies, also called brown bears, feed mainly on nuts, fruit, leaves and shoots but will
also eat rodents, deer and elk.
During the winter, grizzly bears hibernate for 5 – 8 months which is why they must eat
a lot of food in the summer so they can survive. Female grizzlies give birth when they
are still hibernating in their den. There are usually two cubs in a litter and they are born
blind and hairless. They snuggle into their mother's fur for warmth and start to feed on
her milk. When the mother has woken up from her long sleep, she leaves the den with
her babies. Mountain lions and wolves are predators of young bear cubs but mother
grizzly bears are very protective of their young so they usually survive. Cubs will stay
with their mothers for 3 years until they are ready to fend for themselves.
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06-02-06-054-s
Name:
Date:
Subject: Year 6 Literacy
Sheet: Grizzly bear
Grizzly Bear
Answer the following questions:
1. What do we call an animal that eats both meat and plants?
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2. What is the scientific name for a grizzly bear?
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3. How long do grizzlies hibernate for?
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4. Grizzlies are also called:
a
Red bears
c
b
Grey bears
d White bears
Brown bears
5. Where do grizzlies hibernate?
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6. Name two animals that would attack a young bear cub.
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7. When a bear cub is born, how does it stay warm?
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8. Grizzlies are solitary animals. What does this mean?
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