Daily Life
Supper Time
Management
Life Needs
The Body
100
What time of day are deer most active?
What is twilight?
100
The name for a vegetarian animal.
What is a herbivore?
100
How is the deer population managed?
Hunting
100
The term for where an animal lives
What is a habitat?
100
Like a cow, a deer has a four-chambered one of these to digest food.
What is a stomach?
200
This deer is the head of a small social group, or family, of deer.
What is the doe?
200
Primary spring and early summer food.
What are buds, leaves, and shoots?
200
The agency that is in charge of Ohio's whitetail deer.
Ohio Department of Wildlife
200
A good variety of this determines the health of a deer.
What is diet?
200
Bison and goats do not shed them; deer shed them once a year.
What are antlers?
300
The name for a baby deer
Fawn
300
Deer are ruminants, having this mastication (chewing) trait in common with cows.
What is chewing cud?
300
The time of year when you can hunt deer.
Fall/Winter
300
The most critical need besides food, water, and shelter.
What is cover?
300
Fawns use these to blend in with the forest floor.
What are spots?
400
The smallest member of the deer family
Pudu
400
Something a deer might eat.
Twigs, leaves, grass, corn, wildflowers
400
How long a deer in the wild lives for
2-3 years
400
The type of environment deer live in
Woods/brushy cover
400
On the legs and feet; used for communication.
What are scent glands?
500
The best senses of a deer
Smell and Hearing
500
The number of plant varieties that deer eat
Over 400 plant species
500
The number of deer in Ohio
About 700,000
500
How fast a deer can run
Up tp 30 mph
500
The weight of a deer
125-225 Pounds