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Why a home?
Complex homes
GROSS
That's incredible!
How interesting!
100
Penguins need homes to
protect their chicks.
100
A prairie dog's burrow has lots of tunnels and rooms because
they have plenty of places to hide from their predators.
100
A termite home is made of
saliva and dirt.
100
A termite tower can last 
for a century.
100
A hermit crab doesn't stay in the same shell for life.  Instead it...
always grows and looks for a shell that it can fit inside.
200
The rooms in a bee hive are used to hold
honey and their babies.
200
Spiders spin webs to
trap their food.
200
A cowbird kicks out the egg of a bird from a nest and then it...
lays its own egg in its place.
200
This home is built in water using sticks and mud:
a beaver dam!
200
True or false:  The pea crab lives in a shell with another animal.
True.
300
An alligator home is called 
a mound.
300
The African weaverbird puts a hole at the base of its nest so that
tree snakes cannot attack.
300
What does a bagworm eat?
Leaves.
300
How does a turtle use its "home" for protection?  Use a vocabulary word in your answer.
It retreats inside its shell when a predator is near.
300
True or false: The burrowing owl lives in a tree like other owls.
False.
400
A polar bear lives in
a den.
400
After a weaverbird builds its home, what does it wait for?
Waits to attract a female bird.
400
What do burrowing owls eat?
Frogs, rodents, insects.
400
Besides a turtle, name another animal from the story that carries its shell on its back.
A snail.
400
How is a bagworm's home "mobile"?
It lives inside and drags it along from branch to branch.
500
Why does a desert tortoise have a shallow burrow?  Why a deeper burrow?
Shallow during warm months to protect from the heat.  Deep in winter months to protect from cold.
500
Termite towers can be as tall as
a giraffe.
500
How does the pea crab eat?
It eats what the other animal eats.
500
A bagworm is actually a kind of 
caterpillar.
500
What's interesting about the appearance of a burrowing owl?
They have really long legs.