Whiskers
Animals
On the Water
Glossary
Vocabulary
100
Long, stiff hairs
What is whiskers?
100
Rats use whiskers to help the search for _________
What is food?
100
This type of fish loses their whiskers as they get older
What is flying fish?
100
A kind of grass that has long, stiff stems and narrow leaves
What is bamboo?
100
To prevent or stop sight by covering (the eyes) with a cloth, bandage, or the like; cover the eyes of
What is blindfold?
200
Whiskers grow from ________ deep below the skin.
What is roots?
200
Gophers use their whiskers to search through the _______
What is dark?
200
Harbor seals use their whiskers to follow wakes of three different things. Name one of them.
What is fish, shrimp, and squid?
200
A pair of sticks used in some Asian countries for eating food
What is chopsticks?
200
A hiding place where one stays for a prolonged period of time
What is hideout?
300
__________ and _________ surround the whiskers.
What is blood and nerves?
300
Manatees rely on their whiskers because their ______ are so small
What is eyes?
300
Many sea mammels follow __________ when they hunt for prey in dark rivers and oceans
What is wakes?
300
Animals that have hair and feed their young with mother's milk
What is mammals?
300
To shake or move back and forth rapidly, or make something move in this way
What is vibrate?
400
Name two places whiskers can grow
What is cheeks, eyes, chins, feet, blowholes?
400
Flying squirrels have whiskers on the ______ and ______
What is ankles and cheeks?
400
Right whales have whiskers around their ________
What is blowhole?
400
An animal that is hunted and killed by another animal
What is prey?
400
An acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, make a complete revolution
What is somersault?
500
The scientific name for whiskers
What is vibrissae?
500
A cat's whiskers can move in four directions, name two of them.
What is up and down, forward and backward?
500
A walrus can eat this many shellfish in one meal!!
What is 4 thousand!!??
500
Whiskerlike growths on a fish
What is barbels?
500
To move along by twisting and turning the body
What is wriggling?