McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Grade 5, Chapter 3

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Flamingo Division

Flamingos
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Flamingos/home.html

You are what you eat. The pink color of flamingos comes from pigment found in their food! Visit this site to learn more about flamingos.

• Click Habitat and Distribution and read about the flamingo.
• Then click Physical Characteristics at the bottom of the page.
• Also read Diet and Eating Habits, and Hatching and Care of Young.
• Use the information from all these pages to answer the questions.

1. Approximately how many kilometers can a flamingo travel in one night?
   
                                                                                             
   
   
   
   
2. How long would it take a flamingo to travel that distance if he were to fly at an average rate of 50 kilometers an hour?
   
                                                                                             
   
   
   
   
3. Suppose the wingspan of a lesser flamingo is 100 centimeters. How many times as great is the wingspan of a Caribbean flamingo?
   
                                                                                             
   
   
   
   
4. If a flamingo's leg is 90 centimeters long, approximately how long is the distance from foot to ankle?
   
                                                                                             
   
   
   
   
5. The human neck contains 7 vertebrae. About how many times more vertebrae does a flamingo's neck have?
   
                                                                                             
   
   
   
   
6. How many lesser flamingos would it take to equal the weight of a 176-pound man?
   
                                                                                             
   
   
   
   
7. How many times more food does the Caribbean flamingo require each day than the lesser flamingo?
   
                                                                                             
   
   
   
   
8. A 65-gram chicken egg would be classified as "extra large". How does a large flamingo egg compare to such a chicken egg?
   
                                                                                             
   
   
   
   

Math at Home

Today I learned about flamingos at a Web site! I learned that flamingos usually migrate at night and they can travel approximately           kilometers in one night! At a rate of 50 kilometers an hour, it would take them about           hours to reach their destination.

You can find out more about this topic by asking your teacher or parents to show you other Web sites.