Adaptations
Plants
Mammals
Food Chain
Prairies of the Past
100
The bison uses it to withstand the cold prairie winters.
What is a thick coat?
100
This helps to hold in water.
What are waxy leaves?
100
They like to live in the sides of hills, canyons, and bluffs.
What is the coyote?
100
This group is at the top of the prairie food chain.
What are consumers?
100
John Deere invented this tool which allowed pioneers to bread the sod and its deep roots.
What is the plow?
200
The bison uses it to signal aggression or distress.
What is a tail with a tuft?
200
This discourages animals from eating it.
What are sharp thorns?
200
They are nocturnal and are so silent that their prey cannot hear them.
What is the great-horned owl?
200
This group is at the bottom of the food chain.
Who are decomposers?
200
This plague of insects ate all the crops pioneers planted.
What are grasshoppers?
300
The bison uses it to plow through the snow.
What is a big head?
300
It is the best time of the year to collect prairie seeds.
What is the fall?
300
They are the largest mammal in North America.
What is the bison?
300
This group "produces" its' own food and does not eat other foods.
Who are the producers?
300
This was a hardship for the pioneers sometimes deliberately set by Native Americans to chase bison together.
What are prairie fires?
400
It helps to reflect sunlight and prevents the plant from overheating.
What is hairiness?
400
This helps a plant to survive fires
What are massive root systems?
400
They have live babies that look like the parents.
What is the prairie dog?
400
It is a behavior or physical trait which helps an organism survive.
What is an adaptation?
400
These people thought the prairie was very useful.
Who are the Native Americans?
500
The coyote uses this adaptation to escape predators or catch prey reaching speeds of 40 miles an hour.
What is running?
500
This helps to attract pollinating insects such as bees.
What is the bright color and beautiful smell of flowers?
500
They are small with teeth that are good for chewing on plants. They use plant material to build nests.
What are mice?
500
The four resources that are the basis of all life.
What are soil, water, air, and sun?
500
At first pioneer farmers thought the land wasn't very good because there were not many of these.
What are trees?
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