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Survival
tools - pond ecosystem
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Survival tools - prairie ecosystem
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Miscellaneous
100
A common snapping turtle has great big what, that help it snap up organisms as large as fish and snakes?
What is jaws?
100
Wing-like structures allow seeds (helicopters) to whirl and spin through the air. The spinning movement helps to what?
What is it helps to plant the seed into the ground?
100
Thorns are specialized structures that protect plants from what?
What is hungry animals eating them?
100
A scoop full of ______, holds more living things than all the human beings every born? P. 16
What is soil?
100
What bird is the only bird that can fly backwards?
What is the hummingbird?
200
The Largemouth Bass has something special that helps it detect movement and vibrations in the water. What is the specialized structure called?
What is a sense organ?
200
An owl has what specialized structure that allows it to grasp unsuspecting mice?
What are talons?
200
Big bluestem can grow roots as deep as ______ feet.
What is 8 feet?
200
How many years does it take the mayapple's umbrella like leaves to grow, before it produces a flower? P. 17
What is seven?
200
Why would a katydid that is bright pink survive in a prairie?
What is they blend in with brightly colored flowers?
300
Fish and tadpoles have ______, specialized structures, that allow them to get oxygen from the water?
What is gills?
300
Deer have a _______ _______ _________, that allows them to digest grass.
What is a four chambered stomach?
300
What is the term used to describe how a bullsnake's color and markings keep it safe? P. 15
What is camouflaged?
300
Give one example of an internal cue. P. 16
What is hunger?
300
What is the name of the frog that is lazy? He is lazy because they borrow other burrows instead of making their own.
What is the Northern crawfish frog?
400
The great blue heron has two specialized structures we have talked about in science. What are they? NO HALF CREDITS!! : )
What are 1. Long toes? 2. Long slender necks and beaks?
400
Some snakes have glands that produce venom. Name ONE of the two things this is used for. P. 13
What is protection and to make it's food hold still?
400
What prairie creature does not actually hibernate, but rather spends a great deal of time sleeping. It wakes up long enough to go and find animals that are hibernating, dig them up, eat them and then go back to sleep in their own burrow? P. 14
What is a Badger?
400
Name one thing that is an external cue that causes organisms to change their behavior. P. 16
What is weather, temperature and amounts of daylight and darkness.
400
A hummingbird can flap it's wings on average, how many times per second.
What is 53?
500
What is the best survival tool an animal can have?
What is being camouflaged?
500
Roots of a tree on land grow as they search for what? Hint: there are three
What is air, water and minerals?
500
As ______ dig tunnels for their nests, they move and mix the soil. This loosens the soil and allows prairie plants to grow. P. 14
What are ants?
500
During hibernation, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel's heartbeat changes from _____ beats per minute to only _____ beat per minute. P. 17 NO HALF CREDIT! : )
What is 5
500
What is the name of the animal (prairie) that carries soil in their cheek pouches and scatters it away from their burrow?
What is a thirteen-lined ground squirrel?