Animal Vocabulary
Waste expelled by owls after digestion is called this
Pellets
Food chains always begin with plants and end with the sun. True or false
True
Owls eat frogs, snakes and rats and the frogs eat insects. What is the owl in this food chain?
Apex predator
There are 3 types of leopards, name one
Snow, amur/ cloud
The name of the exhibit where information about elephants and their relatives are shown
The secret world of elephants
A place where butterflies are housed is called this.
Vivarium
The missing link in this food chain
person - eggs - chicken - _______ - plant - sun
A food that both snakes and its predator, the owl, will compete for
Rats (answers may vary)
Snake shed their skin for this reason.
To grow
What AMNH stand for
American Museum of Natural History
An animal at the top of a food web is called what?
An apex predator
An example of a food that does not end with the sun as its source of energy
None
The reason why all organisms in a food chain matter
There will be too much or not enough of one organism that may unbalance nature
This snake can open its mouth to swallow prey 3 times bigger than itself because of its unhinged jaw
Cobra
Two examples of African mammals
Elephants, lion, buffalo, hippo, cheetah giraffes, chimp, leopard, zebra, etc
A process by which bacteria, fungi and other small organisms like worms break down waste to produce nutrients.
Decomposition
Animals that consume only meat as part of their diets
Carnivore
If there are not enough lions to eat zebras, one thing that might happen
Too much grass causing fires (answers may vary)
Rats, ice, rabbits, hares and pikas are all examples
Rodents
The difference between a museum and a zoo in terms of animals
Museum - artefacts
Zoo - live animals
Living organisms that make their own food by using energy directly from the sun
Producers
This is an omnivore.
An animal that consumes both plants and meat
What are the three things that are needed for a food web to stay intact (food web cannot exist with them)
Sun, plants, animals
The world's largest and second largest bird
ostrich and emu
Largest rat in the world
Cabybara