Structure & Function
These external structures on the face and hands improve touch.
What are whiskers?
The USA's only mammal that possesses this for its young.
What is a pouch?
This organ is responsible for processing information and identifying danger.
What is the brain?
These internal tubes transport water from roots to leaves.
What is xylem?
An opossum's reaction to a threat involves relaxing these.
What are muscles?
Claws on an opossum's hands are used for these two activities.
What are digging and climbing?
The number of days babies spend in the pouch before moving to the back.
What is 80 to 90?
These nerves carry information from the receptors to the brain.
What are sensory nerves?
This is the specific type of food produced by leaves.
What is sugar?
A hungry fox identifies an opossum as this in its brain.
What is food?
These internal receptors in the snout are better than a human's.
What are scent receptors?
This specific eye part stays wide open, helping the opossum see at night.
What are pupils?
These nerves carry instructions from the brain to the muscles.
What are motor nerves?
This external part of the plant is flat to maximize sunlight absorption.
What are leaves?
The typical lifespan of an opossum in the wild.
What is two years?
These are the source of information received by the nose in the sensory model.
What are scent particles?
The typical number of babies born when an opossum reproduces.
What is 10 to 20?
The reason an opossum's eyesight is actually poor during the day.
What is pupils are always wide open?
This must be absorbed by roots for the plant to survive.
What is water?
Opossums move this way, making it hard to outrun predators.
What is slowly?
The two types of structures that must work together for survival.
What are internal and external?
Where babies immediately crawl to find milk and protection after birth.
What is the mother's pouch?
In the sensory model, "Fox Scent" is known as this.
What is the source?
The primary external energy source required for plant growth.
What is the sun?
To look dead, an opossum flops on its side and sticks this out.
What is its tongue?