Carnivores
True or false: all Carnivores eat meat.
False. Animals are in the Carnivore Order because they have carnassial molars, not because they eat meat.
The distinguishing characteristic of a Marsupial.
What is a pouch?
They always have tails.
What are monkeys?
The distinguishing characteristic of all rodents.
What are teeth that continue to grow?
This animal uses its tail as a way to balance while it kickboxes its opponent.
What is the kangaroo?
This animal's fur is clear and filled with air.
What is a polar bear?
True or false: Marsupials live in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
What is 'false'? Marsupials are not found in Europe or Asia.
It lives in Madagascar and has teeth like a rodent.
What is an Aye Aye?
The one continent on which there are no rodents.
What is Antarctica?
This animal's body protects itself by going rigid, creating saliva, emitting a foul odor, sticking its tongue out and pulling its lips back.
What is the opossum?
The three Families within the Order Carnivora that we studied this year.
What are Canidae (dogs), Ursidae (bears), and Felidae (cats)?
The size/weight of a Joey when it is born.
What is 2 grams or a jelly bean?
Arboreal.
What is the term for an animal that mostly lives in trees?
Two ways that rodents are beneficial.
What are they provide food for other animals, they disperse seeds, and they are used for testing?
This order of animals has forward facing eyes, which gives them binocular vision. This is important if you live in the trees and need good depth perception!
What are Primates?
What are coyotes, fox, black bears, mountain lions (also known as puma, cougar), lynx and bobcats?
The only marsupial to live in the USA.
What is the Virginia Opossum?
Three of the six primary features of a primate.
What are forward facing eyes, opposable thumbs, omnivorous, large brain, nails on fingers & toes, and social communities called 'troops'?
Three animals that are falsely considered to be rodents.
What are hedgehogs, shrews, rabbits, hares, pikas, moles, bats, badgers, or colugos?
This animal has an extended wrist bone that acts like an opposable thumb, which it uses to strip leaves off of its main source of nourishment.
What is the giant panda?
To tell the difference between wild cat and dog tracks, look for this.
What are claw marks? Dogs cannot retract their claws, so they can clearly be seen in the tracks.
Some scientists believe that this supercontinent existed until it was broken apart as a result of The Flood. This theory explains how Marsupials made their way to Australia
What is Pangaea?
Although humans are classified under Primates, the Bible tells us we are different because of this.
What is we are made in God's image, we are 'very good', and we have been given dominion over Creation?
Beavers are considered to be this kind of a species because many animals depend on them.
What is a Keystone Species?
This animal has valves to close its ears and nose, skin flaps to seal its mouth, and clear covers that close over its eyes, allowing it to swim and work at the same time.
What is the beaver?