GENERAL
LONG AGO
AND FAR AWAY
POTPOURRI
SAFETY
100
Average days for pregnancy in cats
What is 65 days?
100
The period of time when dinosaurs appear with mammal-like reptiles
What is the Triassic period?
100
An ancester to modern bird
What is Archaeopteryx?
100
Common port of entry of chemicals into the body, such as pesticides
What is the skin?
100
The initial first aid procedure for bites and scratches
What is immediately wash the area with soap and water?
200
The approximate number of dogs and cats born in the U.S. and the number of them that are euthanized because they are unwanted or abandoned
What is 27 million dogs and cats born and 10 million euthanized?
200
The period of time that dinosaurs reached their greatest abundance
What is Jurassic period?
200
The amount of years since people have kept domesticated animals
What is 10,000 years ago?
200
The approximate number of farms in the United States
What is 2.2 million?
200
Doctors give tetanus shots for animals bites if a patient hasn't received one in this many years
What is a five years?
300
The percentage of American families that own at least one companion animal
What is 57.9 %?
300
The first land plants were believed to have been established about 420 million years ago during this period
What is Ordovician period?
300
The number of years since the oldest direct traces of life on earth were found
What is 3.4 to 3.5 billion years?
300
He was responsible for developing our modern method of classifying organisms.
Who is Carolus Linneaus?
300
5% of dog bites become infected, but this percent of cat bites do.
What is 50%
400
The yearly expenditures for pets in the U.S. annually
What is 32 billion dollars?
400
Vertebrates in the form of amphibians and reptiles appears during this time period
What is Devonian period?
400
This act gave the United States Department of Agriculture that was given the power to control the use of dogs, cats, primates, guniea pigs, hamsters
What is the Animal Welfare Act?
400
Binomial nomenclature uses this language to name species
What is Latin?
400
On the East coast this anmal served as a reservoir for the borrelia organism
What is a white footed mouse?
500
The period of time when cats ovulate
What is 24 hours after mating?
500
The number of years since placental mammals emerged, dispersed, and evolved to new environments, during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs
What is 40-70 million years ago?
500
The number of years ago that showed the earliest indication of a domesticated animal
What is 12,000 years ago?
500
The number of animal bites in the U.S out of 100,000 people
What is 300 to 700?
500
On the West coast this animal served as a reservoir for the borrelia organism
What is a dusty footed rat?