Classification
These types of animal use gills to take in oxygen.
What are fish?
A colour or pattern that allows an animal to blend into their environment.
What is camouflage.
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)?
The most dangerous animal in Canada
What is the Moose.
Typically this type of animal has hollow bones.
What is a bird.
When animals travel far to find food, typically because the seasons/food sources change.
What is migration.
This habitat is a home to many creatures who need salt water to stay alive.
What is the ocean?
This animal is the largest rodent in Canada and does not need to go to school to learn its trade.
What is the Beaver known for it's engineering abilities to make damns.
An animal that eats mainly plants is called a .....
What is herbivore?
These types of animals need sunlight to warm their bodies.
What are reptiles. Lizards, snakes and crocodiles require sun to warm their bodies as they do not possess a regulatory system to keep their internal body temperature within a certain limit.
When an animal spends the winter in a deep sleep so that not much food is needed.
What is hibernation.
What is Manitoba. Manitoba's Narcisse Wildlife Management Area has the largest concentration of snakes in the world.
An animal that eats both plants and meat is called a ...
What is an omnivore.
This type of animal starts its life in the water with gills and then develops lungs to live on land.
What is an amphibian.
When an animal spends the summer in a deep sleep to protect it from the heat and dryness of the summer.
What is estivation?
The largest land animal in North America, can be found in Alberta, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.
What is the wood Bison. Mature males can weigh 1 ton (2,000 lbs).
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?
These warm blooded animals have fur or hair, with the females secreting milk to nourish their young.
What is a mammal.
Animals that typically have their eyes placed at the side of their head to give the widest possible field of view.
What are prey animals. In such animals their eyes often move independently to increase their field of view.
This habitat gets very little rain and is usually very hot during the day.
What is the desert?
The largest animal on earth which calls Canada home (most of the time) and are also the loudest creatures on the planet.
What is a Blue Whale? A Blue Whale can weigh up to 132 tons and are found along Canada's east cost. A school bus weighs 12.5 tons.
The effect of removing carnivores from a healthy ecosystem.
What is the herbivore population would explode rapidly eating large amounts of plants/fungi until there was not enough food left and they would starve, leaving only those plants that were distasteful or poisonous to them.