When animals can use their coloring to blend in to their surroundings to keep them safe from predators.
What is camouflage.
100
This habitat is very cold and has smaller trees and shrubs in the summer. It is covered with ice and snow much of the winter.
What is the Arctic (or tundra)?
100
You are reading a book about monkeys. The monkey gets dressed, goes to the grocery store and cooks dinner. What kind of book is this?
What is desert?
100
An animal that eats mainly meat is called a...
What is carnivore.
200
This type of animal has wings, feathers, and hollow bones.
What is a bird.
200
When animals travel to far away places to find food, like a duck flying south for winter.
What is migration.
200
This habitat is a home to many creatures who need salt water to stay alive.
What is the ocean?
200
You are reading a book about polar bears. It has many facts about polar bears including what they eat, where they live, and what their predators are. What kind of book is it.
What is nonfiction?
200
An animal that eats mainly plants is called a .....
What is herbivore?
300
This type of animal has dry, scaly skin.
What is a reptile.
300
When an animal spends the winter in a deep sleep so that not much food is needed.
What is hibernation.
300
This habitat has many trees, plants and many animals that make their home there. It usually sees all kinds of weather (the four seasons) and many trees lose their leaves in the winter.
What is the forest?
300
Look at the book cover that your teacher is showing you. Is this a fiction or nonfiction book and how do you know?
What is nonfiction - it has photographs and is full of facts.
300
An animal that eats both plants and meat is called a ...
What is an omnivore.
400
This type of animal starts its life in the water with gills and then develops lungs to live on land.
What is an amphibian.
400
When an animal spends the summer in a deep sleep to protect it from the heat and dryness of the summer.
What is estivation?
400
This habitat gets rain almost every day. It is the home to many plants and animals.
What is the rainforest?
400
Look at the cover of the book your teacher is showing you. Is it fiction or nonfiction and how do you know?
What is fiction - it has animals on it doing things that animals can't do in real life.
400
What part of an animal can you look at to get an idea if it is an herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore?
What is its teeth?
500
This animal uses gills to breathe underwater.
What is a fish.
500
A turtle's shell, a fish's gills - parts of an animal that help it to live in its environment and be able to survive are called?
What is body coverings?
500
This habitat gets very little rain and is usually very hot during the day.
What is the desert?
500
The Henry and Mudge series has a boy and a dog in it. The boy acts like a boy and the dog acts like a dog but the books are fiction. What kind of fiction is this?
What is realistic fiction?
500
If a forest was full of carnivores, what would happen?
What is they would all eat each other until there was no food left. The ones that survived would have to move and the plants would all be overgrown because no one is eating them.