The breast meat in a bucket of fried chicken is a muscle that normally allows a bird to

Question

A.  run.
B.  jump.
C.  swim.
D.  feed.
E.  fly.

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· What is the key concept addressed by the question?
· What type of thinking is required?

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· What do you already know about bird adaptations?

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· Given what you now know, what information and/or problem solving approach is most likely to produce the correct answer?

Reflect on Process
· Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?

Answer 1

E.  fly.

Clarify Question
· What is the key concept addressed by the question?
        o This question addresses bird adaptations.
· What type of thinking is required?
        o This question is asking you to take what you already know and apply it to this unfamiliar situation.

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· What do you already know about bird adaptations?
        o Birds have several adaptations for flight.
        o The bones of birds are thin and hollow. Many of the bones are fused, making the bird skeleton more rigid than a reptilian skeleton. The fused sections of backbone and of the shoulder and hip girdles form a sturdy frame that anchors muscles during flight.
        o The power for active flight comes from large breast muscles that can make up 30% of a bird’s total body weight. They stretch down from the wing and attach to the breastbone, which is greatly enlarged and bears a prominent keel for muscle attachment.

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· Given what you now know, what information and/or problem solving approach is most likely to produce the correct answer?
        o The large breast muscles of a bird are the muscles that power the wings in flight.
        o Chickens can fly, although not well because they have been selected to put on extra mass. However they still have large flight muscles that we call “breast meat”.

Reflect on Process
· Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
        o The question required you to take what you already know and apply it to this unfamiliar situation.
        o Did you recognize that breast meat is really the bird’s flight muscles?