Wetland Wildlife
This amphibian starts life in water and develops legs as it grows.
What is a frog?
A wetland is an area where the ground is covered or saturated with?
What is water?
Fish use what organ to breathe underwater.
What is gills?
An adaptation is a trait that helps an animal do this.
What is survive?
This is something people can throw away that can pollute wetlands.
What is trash?
This animal builds dams that can create and change wetland habitats.
What is a beaver?
Wetlands can help protect communities by slowing down this during heavy/rain.
What is flooding
This part of the fish's body helps them steer and move through the water.
What are fins?
A ducks feet are webbed to help do this.
What is swim?
Which has better eyesight: a dragonfly or a turtle?
Dragonfly!
This bird has long legs and often hunts for fish in shallow water.
What is a heron?
This is the measurement of how acidic or basic the water is.
What is PH
A fish's body is covered in these.
What is scales?
A frogs long and sticky tongue helps catch this?
What is food/prey/insects?
True or False: Wetlands are always under water?
What is no only 50 % of the time
This reptile has a hard shell that protects its body.
What is a turtle?
Why might a wetland animal have camouflage?
What is to hide from predators
Why are many fish bodies shaped small and thin?
What is to help them go through the water better.
A turtle's shell is adaptation primarily used for this.
What is protection?
What is the only marsupial in North America?
What is a Opossum?
This mammal has likes to crack open mussels with a rock.
What is a River Otter?
Name two things wetland provide for wildlife.
What are food, water, shelter.
What is a lateral line
Wetlands can act like natural ______ by trapping pollutants and excess nutrients.
What is filters?
Can you name the salamander in Black Hawk County that is endangered?
What is a Blue Spotted Salamander.