Plants
How do plants eat?
Photosynthesis
When are butterflies and moths most active? (hint: they are active at different time of the day)
Moths are active at night (nocturnal)
Butterflies are active during the day (diurnal)
What is unique about a rat, porcupine and beavers teeth?
Their teeth continuously grow.
Their teeth self-sharpen.
When they eat, they can cut vegetation with a clean cut (using their sharp teeth!)
What does Coprophagy mean?
Coprophagy are animals that eat food then defecate wet pellets. They then eat these feces to have a second chance of getting the nutrients. Once they have eaten the feces 1x, the next defecate will have dry, pale coloured feces.
Why do some animals eat seeds?
Seeds are high in fats and proteins.
What is photosynthesis?
When sugar and oxygen is created from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. This happens through a series of chemical reactions.
**Carbon dioxide, water and light go in
**Glucose (sugar), water and oxygen come out
When looking at the colours, what is the difference between a moth and a butterfly?
Moths have dull colours.
Butterflies have bright colours.
What are moose and deer teeth like?
What animals engage in coprophagy?
Rabbits, hares, rodents and beavers.
What are animals that eat and destroy seeds called?
"Seed predators"
What is fruit?
"Fleshy swollen ovaries (flowers) that contain seeds.
Compare a moth and a butterfly's antennae.
Moths antennae are pointed and can be feathered.
Butterfly antennae are straight and clubbed.
Snails and slugs have "guillotine" jaws. What does this look like?
A radula with 27,000 teeth.
What is caecum?
Which animals are "seed predators"?
Animals with sharp incisors rip through seed coats.
Grouse grind seeds in their gizzard.
Blue jays hammer seeds with their bill.
White-breasted and Red-breasted Nuthatches extract seeds with force-like bills.
Red-wing and White-wing Crossbills extract seeds from cones using their specialized bill and long tongue.
What do you call all animals that eat fruits?
"Seed dispersers"
What is the difference between a moth's wings and a butterfly's wings when they are resting?
A moths wings rest down at the sides.
A butterfly's wings rest together and upright.
Mallards, Black Ducks, Teals and Shovelers are all types of dabbling ducks. What does "dabbling duck" mean?
They are filter feeds that use a sieve bill to strain debris and water leaving them with food that they can eat.
Porcupines and geese are not coprophagous. They have a longer digestive tract and caecum to get the nutrients from food. How long is the digestive tract and caecum in geese?
1 meter long.
What are Sap Feeders?
Types of insects that feed on branches, twigs, and foliage. They have spearing mouthparts to access plant sap. Spittlebugs and Aphids are 2 examples of a Sap Feeder.
What are vegetables?
There is no such thing as vegetables! They are tubers, leaves, stems, flowers, roots, etc.
Which has a thicker body- A moth or a butterfly?
A moth.
Mergans, Scaups and Cavasbacks are all types of diving ducks. What does it mean to be a diving duck?
They use a serrated bill to catch fish prey.
Birds don't have teeth. How do they digest food?
A bird swallows sand and stones where they stay in it's gizzard. The gizzards grinds nuts and seeds.
What is a Nectar feeder?
An animal that gets most of its energy from sugar-rich nectar that is produced by flowering plants. Nectar is sweet and is the preferred food for butterflies and moths.