Venus Fly Traps
People who are impressed and fascinated by something, who like to see and learn about it.
admirers
The smell that Titan arum gives off, that it gets its nickname from.
The Hawaiian Islands are in the middle of the Pacific _________.
Ocean
Producers are the first forms of life on the food chain. True or False: they eat snakes.
False. Producers are plants that make their own food from the sun.
Some spiders weave webs. Other kinds of spiders are called _____________spiders.
jumping, or wandering
The word for the Venus Fly Trap leaf parts that close and trap the prey behind the attached cilia.
lobes
True or false: the corpse flower can grow 9 feet tall.
True!
Originally, the volcanic islands were lifeless, or _________.
barren
A primary consumer is an organism that eats producers, like a carnivorous predator.
False! Predators are secondary and tertiary consumers, and eat other animals. Primary consumers are vegetarians!
The kind of web that is like a wheel is called an _____ web.
orb
A word for catching and trapping prey.
capture
Another word for characteristics: "Given Titan arum's strange _________, who wouldn't..." want to see the stinking flower?!
traits
True or False? The jet stream is a January wind that is so strong it can carry seeds, spiders, and insects to Hawaii from Asia.
True!
If the snake population increases, can this affect the population of mice and acorns?
Yes.
Spiders digest their prey outside or inside of their bodies?
outside. After spiders wrap their prey up in silk, they spit digestive juices on it and liquefy it so they can drink it like a milkshake.
An adjective used to describe the Venus Fly Trap that means, "it is not a typical plant."
unusual
The corpse flower _______ in insects for pollination.
lures
The big bird with powerful wings that seeds and sticky snails could ride to Hawaii.
frigate bird
"Snakes are a vital link in the food chain." What does vital mean?
The word for a skeleton that covers the body.
exoskeleton
The name for the plant scientists who "still don't understand how the trap closed."
botanists
The name for scientists who study all kinds of life, including plants.
biologists
The seafaring Hala seed got to Hawaii by: _______________________ "snuggled in a blanket of spongy material."
floating on the water
Snakes are not an important link in the food chain. True or False?
False.
The scientific name for spiders, named after the Greek Goddess Arachne, is ______________.
arachnids