Today, I completed yesterday’s activity with the Mountain Stone Wētā. This wētā lives in the freezing mountains and can have it’s whole body frozen for weeks without being dead. Then, when the sun comes out and thaws it, the wētā can come back to life. How cool is that!
For this kick start activity, I compared the Mountain Stone Wētā with another animal that can live in extreme weather and temperatures. I chose to compare this wētā with the Long-eared Jerboa. I think this jerboa is almost the exact opposite of this wētā because my jerboa lives in hot environments. I really enjoyed this task learning about a new type of wētā that I didn’t know about and a new type of animal, the jerboa, that I never thought existed! This is my comparison chart.
What would you compare the Mountain Stone Wētā with?
Kia ora Isa
It’s Charlotte again, your Summer Learning Journey Blog Commenter. Great work finishing the Mountain Stone Wētā Kick Start activity! If you did it again, is there anything you would try differently?
What a great idea to choose an animal that you didn’t know much about to compare with the Mountain Stone Wētā. Well done on finding a few similarities between the two animals. I wonder if they have any other similarities?
I noticed that you mentioned both these animals live in extreme weather conditions! Would you prefer to live in extremely hot weather or extremely cold weather and why?
Ngā Mihi Nui
Charlotte Visser
Summer Learning Journey
Kia Ora Charlotte.
It’s Isa here. Thank you for your comment. I liked reading what you said about my Mountain Stone Wētā Kick Start activity. If I did it again, I think I would try choosing a different animal to compare it with, just to see what new similarities or differences I could find.
They might have a few more things in common, like how both animals need special adaptations to survive in tough environments, even if those environments are different.
If I had to choose between extremely hot weather or extremely cold weather, I would pick cold because you can always add more layers, but in extreme heat there’s not much you can do to cool down.
From Isa