Birds
True or False: Some birds stay in Manitoba all year long.
True
A long sleep over winter that some mammals use to survive winter.
What is Hibernate or Torpor?
Early people used snow to build these shelters.
What are igloos?
The only bird that can fly backwards.
What is a Hummingbird?
Birds need to do this more often in the fall and winter to survive the cold temperatures.
What is eat?
Animals often hoard this to last the winter.
What is food?
This is humans' main defense against the cold.
What is clothing?
The color of polar bears' skin.
What is Black?
True or false: Bird's feet are the same temperature as their body.
False, they maintain a temperature near freezing so as not to lose heat.
This thickens before winter to provide warmth.
What is Fur?
this shaking burns your energy to create heat.
What is shivering?
Bats are the only Mammal that can do this.
What is Fly?
Birds do this with their feathers to keep warm in the winter.
What is fluff them up?
In northern climates, some mammals' fur is this colour to provide camouflage.
What is white?
This reaction raises your body hair to trap more warm air close to your skin.
What are goosebumps?
the number of noses a slug has.
what is four?
Some birds do this by flying south where it is warmer for the winter.
What is Migration?
Beavers spend the winter in this to keep warm and away from the elements.
What is a Den or Dam?
This is the reason humans have hair on their heads.
What is to prevent heat loss?
Sea Manatees do this to control their buoyancy.
What is Fart?