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Rabbits dig these
Burrows
Prairie Dog tunnels can be how long
100 feet
How many different kinds of earthworms are there
3,000
Another word for connecting room in an ant colony
Chambers
These earthworms come out at night to eat dead leaves
Night crawlers
How long is the London Subway
250 miles
Prairie Dogs greet each other like this
Touching their teeth
These creatures are responsible for the earth's constant movement
Earthworms
Where did the first subway open
In London in 1863
Prairie dogs are not actually dogs but
A type of squirrel
In a handful of dirt you are holding
Millions of living things
Some foods ants find underground are
Worms and dead insects
Underground ant colonies keep ants safe from
Hungry predators, wind, rain and other weather conditions
A prairie dog town was discovered in Texas, how large was it
25,000 acres
Where do Prairie Dog's live
In grassy plains in Canada, Mexico and U.S.
Several neighborhoods of prairie dogs make up a
Colony or town
What caused the decline in the Prairie Dog population
People building on top of tunnels, plowing for crops, lack of rain and disease
What did engineers have to learn to do like animals
Build tunnels that don't collapse
Name 4 animals that burrow underground
Chipmunks, foxes, gophers, groundhogs, moles, skunks, opossums, prairie dogs, rabbits and rattlesnakes
Why do prairie dogs have several different barks or calls
Each type of call warns of a different type of predator