Vocabulary
An animal that is eaten by other animals.
What is "prey"?
This animal can keep up a speed of 40 miles per hour much longer than a cheetah can.
What is a gazelle?
The defenses used by animals when they confront a predator.
What are secondary defenses?
Name one reason animals use venom.
What is to catch prey, defend themselves, or defend their family/community?
An animal that eats other animals.
What is "predator"?
A strange jumping behavior that gazelles do to show cheetahs that they are healthy and can outrun them.
What is stotting?
Under stones, hiding under leaves or along stems, etchings in a tree's bark are examples of...
What is avoid being noticed?
Name one way animals inject their venom.
What is stinger, fang, spine, spur, or multiple stingers?
A substance that can cause animals to die or become sick.
What is "poison"?
Name one of the two primary defenses that gazelle fawns have.
What is lying still as a stone or their tawny coats?
Rolling up leaves and sealing with sticky silk, sealing leaves together with silk, using saliva to make a gall or case are examples of how insects __________ or change plants.
What is alter?
Solitary wasps use their venom to ________ spiders or insects.
What is paralyze?
Poisonous substance that animals make and inject into other animals.
What is "venom"?
Animals are born "knowing" how to defend themselves.
What is instinct?
Give an example of how birds hide their nests.
What is hide in the grass, put them in branches, bury them in burrows, or conceal in tree holes?
Wasps feed mainly on nectar when they are adults, but baby wasps need _________.
What is meat or protein?
Defensive tools that are at the ready all the time, even when the animal is not in danger.
What are "primary defenses"?
The first step an animal takes to defend itself.
What is being alert?
Name another way animals avoid danger (HINT: Ms. Starkey's favorite way to lay low).
What is staying close to the hiding spot or coming out at night (nocturnal)?
A potter wasp carries its prey to its nest. Then, the wasp lays an egg on the prey. When the egg hatches, the ________ eats the meat.
What is a larva?