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Birds II
100
This force enables an aircraft or creature to propel itself forward.
What is thrust?
100
A scientist who specializes in the study of animals.
What is a zoologist?
100
These biomes have very high temperatures because of the little vegetative cover, less cloud cover, low atmospheric moisture and the land’s exposure to the sun. Humidity is very low, with a few events of very little rain in a year.
What is the desert?
100
People who enjoy watching and studying birds.
What are ornithologists?
100
A stripe of color that crosses a bird's wing horizontally.
What is a WINGBAR?
200
This word describes an object using an airfoil that is well designed to travel through the air smoothly without a lot of drag.
What is aerodynamic?
200
The second grouping in classification, just under the kingdom.
What is a phylum?
200
These biomes make up about 73% of the total earth’s surface.
What is Aquatic?
200
A series of notes that a bird sings which has a particular pattern.
What is a SONG?
200
A tuft of feathers on the top of a bird's head.
What is a CREST?
300
Any object with a shape resembling a wing designed to create lift.
What is airfoil?
300
The classification class to which birds belong.
What is AVES?
300
These biomes make up about 30% of the total land cover on earth, and are of incredible value to life on earth. They are a store of carbon and play a very important role in climate control. They have a watershed role, and are a source of many raw materials that humans depend on. Humidity is extremely high with lots of rainfall, exceeding 200cm all year though. Soils are loose and very airy, with high acidity and decaying organic matter.
What is the FOREST?
300
A single sound a bird makes.
What is a CALL?
300
Features on a bird that are particular to its identification.
What are FIELD MARKS?
400
The force that resists of pushes against an airfoil in flight, reducing its forward motion.
What is drag?
400
The group in classification directly under or following order.
What is GENUS?
400
These biomes are massive areas dominated by one or a few species of grass, with a few sparsely distributed trees.
What are GRASSLANDS?
400
What a bird such as a woodpecker does when it hammers its bill against objects.
What is DRUMMING?
400
The covering on a bird. The one feature that identifies a bird from other animals.
What are FEATHERS?
500
The force upon an airfoil, causing an aircraft or creature to fly and stay in the air.
What is lift?
500
The last and smallest grouping of animals in classification, containing creatures that resemble one another and are able to breed with others in the same group.
What is SPECIES?
500
This is known to be the coldest of all the terrestrial (land) biomes, with the least bio-diversity capacity. It got its name from ‘Tunturia’ a Finnish word that means ‘ barren land’. This biome has very little rain and extremely freezing temperatures, and covers about a fifth of the earth’s land surface.
What is the TUNDRA?
500
Songbirds that have feet which allow them to perch on branches with three toes pointing forward and one toe pointing backward.
What are PASSERINES?
500
The practice of capturing wild birds and placing tiny bracelets on their legs to learn about the birds' habits.
What is BIRD BANDING?