Rainforest Habitat
Freshwater Habitat
Saltwater Habitat
Endangered Species
Bonus
100

True or False - The tropical rainforest is dry and hot all the time and not many animals live here.

False.  The rainforest stays warm and wet and green all the time and has many different types of animals and plants.
100
Name 2 places that freshwater is found
streams, rivers, lakes, ponds
100
Name an animal that lives in the surface of the ocean water
turtles, jellyfish, crabs
100
This endangered species is a scavenger found in Washington State.  It is also the symbol of our country.
Bald Eagle
100
When plants and trees grow thickly and closely together in the rainforest that they form a _________ from above.
canopy
200
Name one way plants have adapted to live in the tropical rainforest
1.  They reach for sunlight or need little sunlight

2.  They have waxy leaves for water to run off

3.  The trees have large roots

200
This freshwater plant has a long thin stem with a foot-long furry flower spike at the top that turns brown in the fall.  The plant can reach up to nine feet tall.
Cattail
200
These saltwater animals can have skeletons on the inside or outside of them and when they die the skeleton remains in place and other animals of its type come and live on top of the old skeletons.  They make up a colony called a _________________.
Coral Reef
200
What caused the Bald Eagles to start dying out?
farmers hunting them because they were losing their farm animals

Trees being cut down - so they had less trees to build nests

Pesticide sprays harmed their eggs

200
Water lilies __________ on the surface of some ponds. 
float
300
Is the squirrel monkey a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
Omnivore
300
This freshwater animal is a carnivore an has gills
rainbow trout
300
These saltwater predators are carnivores with sharp teeth and smooth slender bodies to help them swim fast.
sharks
300
When an animal or plant dies out completely it is called _________________.
Extinction
300
Are oceans made of freshwater or saltwater?
Saltwater
400
This animal likes to eat bats and other animals.  It can open its jaw very very wide and swallow his prey whole.
Boa Constrictor
400
What does it mean to be amphibious (hint: bullfrogs are amphibious)?
able to live on land and in the water
400
This is the biggest animal in the world and can weigh as much as twenty-five elephants.
Blue Whale
400
Name one way people's actions can endanger lots of species of plants and animals
cutting down trees, starting forest fires, dumping dangerous waste and chemicals into rivers
400
What is regeneration?
When an animal regrows a missing part of its body
500
This rainforest insect lives in colonies underground.
Leafcutter ant
500
Name 3 animals that live near freshwater habitats
beaver, muskrat, ducks, snails, frogs, fish, birds, moose, elk, snakes, turtles, porcupines, deer
500
If the starfish doesn't swim how does it move?
It uses hundreds of tiny tube feet to crawl slowly on the ocean floor.
500
A group of living things that are all similar are called a _________________.
species
500
Name 3 of the 5 oceans on Earth
Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern
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