Types of Desert Animals
Signs it's too hot out for your pets
How Desert Animals Keep Cool
Ways to keep your Pet Cool
100

This animal has a hard shell and it's house is on it's back - does not live in the water! 

What is a tortoise

100

The hottest time of day is

What is late morning to early afternoon? 

100

Digging in the sand to stay cool is called - 

What is burrowing?

100

This is heavy breathing dogs do to evaporate moisture/water from tongue and lungs

What is panting?

200

This animal has no limbs

What is a Snake

200

Best activities to do with your pet when it is hot outside

What is play in the water, play inside, walk in the morning or when it is cool out, provide plenty of shade and water?

200

These animals lift their legs to stay up above the hot rocks and sand

What are lizards? 

200

When cats lick themselves to keep cool it is called this

Grooming

300

This animal has a poisonous stinger on it's tail

What is a Scorpion

300

This is the temperature of extreme heat for pets

What is 90 degrees?

300

Snakes use these to help seal in moisture to stay cool

What are scales?

300

Bunnies use these big body parts to push away excess heat

What are their ears?

400

These animals use their big ears to stay cool but are tiny and cute

What are Fennec Foxes?

400
Name signs of heat stress - 

What is: excessive panting, drooling, weakness, vomiting, diarrhea and collapsing

400

These animals sleep during the day when it is hottest out and are awake at night 

What are Nocturnal Animals? 

400

Dogs will dig a bed of dirt to stay cool - True or False

True

500

These animals use heat from the sun to stay warm - (cold or warm blooded)

What are cold-blooded animals? 

500
This can cause pets to struggle to cool themselves through panting, increasing risk of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

What is high Humidity?

500

These animals eat lizards and grasshoppers to get their water supply 

What are fennec foxes? 

500

Dogs sweat a small amount from this body part

What are their paws?