Classification
Adaptations
Habitats
Canadian Animal FACTS

FOOD!
100

These types of animal use gills to take in oxygen.

What are fish?

100

A colour or pattern that allows an animal to blend into their environment.

What is camouflage.

100

This habitat is very cold and has smaller trees and shrubs in the summer. It is covered with ice and snow much of the winter.

What is the Arctic (or tundra)?

100

The most dangerous animal in Canada

What is the Moose.

100
An animal that eats mainly meat is called a...
What is carnivore.
200

Typically this type of animal has hollow bones.

What is a bird.

200

When animals travel far to find food, typically because the  seasons/food sources change.

What is migration.

200

This habitat is a home to many creatures who need salt water to stay alive.

What is the ocean?

200

This animal is the largest rodent in Canada and does not need to go to school to learn its trade.

What is the Beaver known for it's engineering abilities to make damns.

200

An animal that eats mainly plants is called a .....

What is herbivore?

300

These types of animals need sunlight to warm their bodies.

What are reptiles. Lizards, snakes and crocodiles require sun to warm their bodies as they do not possess a regulatory system to keep their internal body temperature within a certain limit.

300

When an animal spends the winter in a deep sleep so that not much food is needed.

What is hibernation.

300
This habitat has many trees, plants and many animals that make their home there. It usually sees all kinds of weather (the four seasons) and many trees lose their leaves in the winter.
What is the forest?
300
The province with the largest concentration of snakes in the world.

What is Manitoba.  Manitoba's Narcisse Wildlife  Management Area has the largest concentration of snakes in the world.

300

An animal that eats both plants and meat is called a ...

What is an omnivore.

400

This type of animal starts its life in the water with gills and then develops lungs to live on land.

What is an amphibian.

400

When an animal spends the summer in a deep sleep to protect it from the heat and dryness of the summer.

What is estivation?

400
This habitat gets rain almost every day. It is the home to many plants and animals.
What is the rainforest?
400

The largest land animal in North America, can be found in Alberta, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.

What is the wood Bison.  Mature males can weigh 1 ton (2,000 lbs).

400

What part of an animal can you look at to get an idea if it is an herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore?

What is its teeth?

500

These warm blooded animals have fur or hair, with the females secreting milk to nourish their young.

What is a mammal.

500

Animals that typically have their eyes placed at the side of their head to give the widest possible field of view.

What are prey animals. In such animals their eyes often move independently to increase their field of view.

500

This habitat gets very little rain and is usually very hot during the day.

What is the desert?

500

The largest animal on earth which calls Canada home (most of the time) and are also the loudest creatures on the planet.

What is a Blue Whale? A Blue Whale can weigh up to 132 tons and are found along Canada's east cost. A school bus weighs 12.5 tons.

500

The effect of removing carnivores from a healthy ecosystem.

What is the herbivore population would explode rapidly eating large amounts of plants/fungi until there was not enough food left and they would starve, leaving only those plants that were distasteful or poisonous to them.