Animal migrations for elementary English students

4. Salmon yearly perform
migrations
that cover thousands of
miles

5. After spending five
years in the
Pacific Ocean, adult
salmon
returns to freshwater
After spawning,
they die
where they were
born

6. Ascension Island
is 2,000 miles from
the coast of Brazil
or 3,340 km out in
the Atlantic.
Endangered
species
by the end of
the
century

7. Tortoise
Turtle

8. In autumn they
fly
3,000 km south
to
California or
Mexico

10. They inhabit the
Arctic tundra
They don’t mind
walking 500 km
and back.

11. The Reindeer is an excellent swimmer.
It can easily swim across wide rivers.
They live together in herds.

12. They travel
thousands
of km annually,
and they
eat tons of
plankton.

13. Endangered: In danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion
of a species' range.
Diadromous: (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters.
Spawn: To deposit eggs; produce spawn
Gill: The respiratory organ of most aquatic animals that breathe
water to obtain oxygen, consisting of a filamentous
structure of vascular membranes across which dissolved
gases are exchanged.
Shallow: Measuring little from bottom to top or surface;
lacking physical depth

14. Ascension Island: An island in the southern Atlantic northwest of St. Helena.
Discovered by the Portuguese on Ascension Day in 1501,
it was taken by the British in 1815 and has been administered
by St. Helena since 1922.
Hibernate: To be in an inactive or dormant state or period
Hatch: To produce (young) from an egg
Herd : A number of wild animals of one species that remain together
as a group