This is a journey across a stretch of land, usually to observe or hunt wild animals.
What is a Safari?
100
Name 3 characteristics of a mammal.
What are vertebrates, warm blooded (endothermic), breath oxygen, nurse their young, and give birth to live young?
100
This is the sense a dog uses the most.
What is smell?
100
True or False. All cats have retractable claws.
What is false. A cheetah's claws do not retract.
100
This is another name for a pouch.
What is marsupium?
200
Another name for the hunter and the hunted.
Daily double: What is the rhyme we learned in class about these types of animals eyes?
What is predator and prey?
"Eyes in front help them hunt, eyes on the side help them hide."
200
What are 2 differences in a mammal jaw and a reptile jaw?
What is lower jaw is one bone and can move side to side?
200
A polar bear's skin is this color. Why?
What is black? To help absorb heat.
200
A creature at the top of the food chain is called this.
What is an apex predator?
200
Baby marsupials are called this.
What is joeys?
300
These are diseases that can be passed from humans to animal or vice versa.
What are zoonotic diseases?
300
Name the 4 kinds of teeth a mammal has.
What is incisors, canines, premolars and molars?
300
True or False: Bears sleep all winter and their heart rate and body temperature drop while they hibernate.
What is false. Bears go in a state of dormancy.
300
This is the only cat that lives in a social group. What is the group called.
What is lion and pride?
300
This is a theory that once upon a time, the continents of earth were once one big piece of land.
What is Pangea?
400
Dr. Jane Goodall was a great example of how a scientist used this method of getting an animal used to their presence so they could study the animal more closely and in its own habitat.
What is habituation?
400
An animal that walks on its toes is called this.
What is a digitigrade?
400
What is unique about the panda's wrist compared to other bears?
What is it has a thumb like extension?
400
Name 3 cats that live in North America.
What is Bobcat, Cougar and Canada Lynxes
400
This is what a pack of kangaroo are called.
What is a mob?
500
Animals with hooves are called this.
What is an ungulate?
500
Fill out this Punnent Square. What do the capital and lower case letter signify?
What is Upper case is a dominant trait and lower case letter is a recessive trait.
500
Some animals have a tail that can grasp things. This is called......
What is a prehensile tail?
500
How is natural selection different from a mutation?
Natural selection "selects" genes that make an animal more likely to survive. Mutations change the genes, wither putting something in the genes that wasn't there to begin with or eliminating something that was there.
500
This is where most marsupials live and what is the only marsupial that lives in North America.