Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
K - 2nd Grade
Grades 3-5
100
Name at least one of the two things that make us think rodents are destructive.
What are chewing on almost anything and carrying diseases?
100
Name two reasons why elephants blow dust.
What are dust acts as sunscreen and repels insects?
100
Name two of the special features whic
What are humps?
100
Compared to a rabbit, a hare's ears are . . .
What is longer and often tipped in black?
100
This is what impalas do when they are frightened or startled.
What is leap?
200
The feature that characterizes rodents from other mammals. ( p 112 )
What is teeth that need to gnaw?
200
Name two of the four ways a donkey differs from a horse.
What is smaller, larger ears, louder, and less compliant?
200
The country where zebu cattle can be found.
What is India?
200
The most dangerous animal in Africa.
What is a hippopotamus?
200
The frequency in which a deer may lose its antlers.
What is every year?
300
Name the ways rodents are helpful to the world.
What are seed-dispersal, food for other animals, and test subjects for the military and medical fields?
300
When I needed a large horse to work in my fields, I bought a warm-blooded horse. I would have been better off buying this.
What is a cold-blooded breed?
300
The process by which an animal chews its food, swallows it, and then it comes back up its throat to be chewed and swallowed again.
What is rumination?
300
In the book, a pikas is an animal that is compared closely to two animals. Name one. ( p 120 )
What are rabbits or hares?
300
A colt is to a stallion as this is to a mare.
What is filly (daughter)?
400
Name the three groups into which scientists divide rodents. ( p 113)
What is mouse-like, squirrel-like, and cavy-like?
400
Each zebra has its own unique . . .
What is stripe pattern?
400
Name three of the five special features of camel that enable them to survive in the desert.
What are humps that store fat, they can go long periods without water and then drink up to 20 gallons at one time, they have long eye lashes that keep out dust, their nostrils are slits that can close up during a dust storm, their wide feet provide padding and stability in the sand?
400
Rhino horns are made of this material.
What is keratin?
400
The kind of habitat in which a mastodon would have lived.
What is a forest?
500
This animal in order Edentata really has no teeth.
What is an anteater?
500
Compared to an elephant, this animal was about the same size, had curved tusks, and was covered in hair.
What is a mammoth?
500
Giraffes have amazingly designed system that alter this.
What is their blood pressure?
500
The feature that both tapirs and elephants have.
What is a long proboscis (trunk)?
500
Used to describe hares, this word means the newborn hares do not need a parent to take care of them. They take care of themselves. ( p 121 )
What is precocial?
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