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    DIRECTIONS:

  1. Answer the questions below using the information you learn about the animals.
  2. Fill in your answers in the answer key format.
  3. Once you've finish, put all the letters with numbers underneath together to figure out the missing animal. (The letters are in number order.)
  4. Check your answer by clicking on the ANSWER link at the end of the mission.
  5. Please print this page so you have all of the questions and the answer key in front of you.


    QUESTIONS:

  1. On what continent can Poison dart frogs usually be found?
  2. What part of their body helps Bearded Pigs dig for food?
  3. What is the largest African crocodile and likes to prey on its food by the water's edge?
  4. Oriental fire-bellied toads have a red pattern on their skin that ________ predators of its toxins.
  5. What is the longest part of the Ring-Tailed Lemurs body?
  6. Humboldt penguins breed in large gatherings or colonies known as _________.
  7. Which type of bird lives high in the forest canopy?
  8. What kind of tortoise can live for up to 200 years?
  9. What is the life expectancy of Oriental fire bellied toads?
  10. This snake is the largest venomous snake in the world.
  11. Red-eyed tree frogs are nocturnal. This means they are awake during the night time and they rest during the __________.


ANSWER KEY FORMAT:


PA Academic Standards

3.3. Biological Sciences

A- Know the similarities and differences of living things.

• Identify life processes of living things (e.g., growth, digestion, react to environment).
• Know that some organisms have similar external characteristics (e.g., anatomical characteristics; appendages, type of covering, body segments) and that similarities and differences are related to environmental habitat.
• Describe basic needs of plants and animals.

C- Know that characteristics are inherited and, thus, offspring closely resemble their parents.

• Identify characteristics for animal and plant survival in different climates.
• Identify physical characteristics that appear in both parents and offspring and differ between families, strains or species.

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