Habitats and handling
Natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
What is a habitat?
Name of the other teacher for this class that was here Monday and Tuesday
Who is Mr. Mik?
Name given to an introduced species that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment
What is an invasive species?
Treatment and care of injured, orphaned, or sick wild animals so that they can be released back into the wild.
What is animal rehabilitation?
Act of teaching animals specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli
What is animal training?
These are the 4 main characteristics of habitats
What is water, shelter, space, and food?
Name of the thing you are making as part of your research project
What is a scientific poster?
Plant native to Asia that can overtake entire areas of the forest and can be found at RL
What is privet?
Name of agency that issues permits to rehabbers.
What is Texas Parks and Wildlife?
Type of training that involves teaching birds of prey to hunt certain things
What is falconry?
You use both of these when properly holding a turtle and a snake
What are your hands/arms
Name of the director of education here
Who is Mrs. Sherrie?
Beetle that can destroy ash trees and is spreading throughout N. America
What is the emerald ash borer?
Term used to describe what happens when an animal believes a human is its natural caretaker
What is imprinting?
3 types of dog training
What is search and rescue, herding livestock, guarding, explosive or drug detection, disability assistance, recall, sit, stay, socializing?
Age most box turtles can reach
What is up to 50 years?
Name of the game we played on Monday with Mrs. Virginia's class
What is Oh! Deer?
Name of mollusc that is wreaking havoc in many freshwater ecosystems in the U.S. because it reproduces like crazy and attaches to any surface
What is the zebra mussel?
Name of the licensed rehabber that visited us on Monday
Who is Mrs. Dawna?
Type of fish that has been observed that can be trained somewhat
What is goldfish?
Term that refers when animals make clones of themselves. Something the Vietnamese stick insects are known to do.
What is parthenogenic?
Name of the place we went to Tuesday where we walked up a hill
What is the drying beds?
The way you write scientific names every time you are handwriting them (i.e. not using a computer)
Name of the opossum that visited us on Monday
Who is Aurora?
Age of artie the ferret
What is roughly 7 years old?