Habitat
Physical Characteristics
Defenses
Animals in the Classroom
Features
100
This is the meaning of the word habitat.
What is the temperature, food and shelter where an animal lives?
100
This is the meaning of the words 'physical characteristics.'
What is what an animal looks like (size, shape, color, etc.)?
100
An animal has defenses to protect itself from _____________.
What are predators?
100
This classroom animal defends itself by hissing at a predator.
What is a Bess Beetle?
100
This is the word for characteristics that help an animal survive.
What are features?
200
This was the name of the habitat that the Bess Beetle and creatures such as the black bear and squirrel prefer.
What is the Woodland habitat?
200
Name a physical characteristic of a zebra.
What are stripes, tall, large, etc.?
200
A porcupine's quills would be an example of what kind of defense?
What is a weapon?
200
Our fish lived in this kind of habitat.
What is Freshwater?
200
This is a feature of a fish that helps it survive.
What are gills for breathing?
300
Name an animal that might live in the Arctic.
What is the polar bear, seal, whale, penguin, etc.?
300
This is the process of putting animals into groups based on their characteristics.
What is classification?
300
Dolphins use this kind of defense to protect themselves from predators.
What is environmental/herding into a group?
300
This animal's name also means "stomach-foot."
What is a snail/mollusk?
300
This is a feature of a bird.
What are wings for flying, beak for eating, feathers to keep warm?
400
Name an animal that might live in the Jungle.
What are monkeys, snakes, parrot (birds), etc.?
400
Bird beaks come in many different shapes and sizes. A tweezer-shaped beak would be helpful in eating this type of food.
What are seeds/worm/etc.?
400
This is a defense of an oppossum.
What is playing dead/changing appearance?
400
The Bess Beetle uses this body part to feel where it is going.
What is the antenna?
400
Name an animal and give two features that help it survive.
Answers vary.
500
Name 3 or more different kinds of habitats.
What are woodland, freshwater, saltwater, desert, savannah/plains, mountain, arctic, jungle, etc.?
500
This is the difference between a physical characteristic and feature.
What is that a characteristic is what something looks like and a feature is a characteristic that helps an animal survive?
500
Name 3 of the different animal defenses that we talked about.
What is changing appearance, weapons, environmental, camouflage, etc.?
500
Name two problems that the manatee had in the story that we read.
What is getting stuck in the sewer pipe and getting hit by boats?
500
Name a different animal and tell 3 features that help the animal survive.
Answers vary.
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