MAMMALS
This is the State Mammal of New Jersey.
What is the Horse?
True or False: A fence lizard can break its tail off from its body to escape a predator.
What is TRUE?
This is the State Bird of New Jersey.
What is the American Goldfinch?
Fish breathe with these.
What are gills?
True or False: we call a group of frogs a navy.
What is False? We call a group of frogs an army.
This is what you call a group of dolphins.
What is a pod?
An Eastern Kingsnake is known as the "King of Snakes" for this reason.
What is "They are the only snakes that eat other snakes?"
True or False: Penguins can fly.
This fish blows up to double its size to scare predators away.
What is a Puffer Fish?
This is the meaning of the word "amphibian," which comes from the Greek language.
What is "two lives?"
This is the only state in the United States where coyotes do NOT live.
What is Hawaii?
These are the two species of snakes found in New Jersey that are venomous.
What are the Timber Rattlesnake and the Northern Copperhead?
An owl eats its prey whole, and spits up the undigestible bones, feathers and fur. This is what we call this bundle of undigestible material.
What is an owl pellet?
This long slimy freshwater fish reminds us of a very large worm.
What is the American Eel?
When a frog egg hatches, this is what we call the next stage in a frog's life cycle.
What is "tadpole?"
This mammal has stretchy cheek pouches that grow larger as it gets older.
What is a Chipmunk?
This is what we call the bottom of a turtle's shell.
What is a plastron?
This bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
What is a Hummingbird?
Besides its fins and muscles, a fish used this part of its body to submerge or ascend in the water.
What is the swim bladder?
Some amphibians secrete mucous from glands in their skin to make them taste icky to predators. That mucous also serves as a defense against predators for another reason.
What is "the slimy mucous makes them difficult to handle and catch?"
This mammal is the only marsupial that lives in North America.
What is an Oppossum?
True of False: all snakes are venomous.
What is FALSE? Many snakes are constrictors, who kill their prey by wrapping their body around their prey, squeezing them until they die from lack of circulation.
This is what we call a group of chickens.
What is a flock?
The males of this fish, a "cousin" of the pipefish, carries the fertilized eggs instead of the females.
What is a Seahorse?
Salamanders travel to special temporary ponds in the forest to find mates every spring. This is what we call those pools.
What are "vernal pools?"