Date ______Name ______
Apologia Zoology 3Chapter 7: Fill In
1. Name several types of rodents:
______
______
______
______
2. There are over how many species of rodents?______
3. Rodents make up about 10254050 percent of mammals.
4. Most rodents are large.TrueFalse
5. What is the largest rodent on earth?______
6. Rodere is Latin and means______
7. Dent is Latin and means ______
8. How are rodents characterized?
______
9. Rodents’ teeth never stop growing.TrueFalse
10. Rodents:
eat:mostly ______
most are:lonerssocial
smaller rodents have:manyfewyoung
larger rodents have:manyfewyoung
smaller rodents have:shorterlongerlifespan than larger rodents
live in:burrows treesboth
are:diurnalnocturnalboth
11. Rodents don’t have canine teeth.TrueFalse
12. Most rodents have stubby tails.TrueFalse
13. Name 3 reasons rodents are important:
1) ______
2) ______
3) ______
14. Name the three main groups of rodents:
______
______
______
Name one animal type from each group of rodents:
______
______
______
15. Rats are problematic rodents because they ______
______
16. Rats were the cause of the epidemic known as the ______
which killed ______million people.
17. Rats destroy ______, resulting in rat
______that leave people hungry.
18. Rats and mice are the same animal.TrueFalse
19. Name one negative thing squirrels do:
______
______
20. When is squirrel mating season?
late ______and early ______
21. Squirrels make nests called ______
22. Name some things squirrels eat:
______
______
______
______
23. How do squirrels remember where nuts are buried?
______
24. Do flying squirrels really fly?YesNo
25. The only flying mammal is the ______.
26. Beavers use logs to build ______.
27. A keystone species is an animal that ______
______
28. Two things beavers do that are positive are:
1) ______
2) ______
29. Small grains of dirt and mud are called ______.
30. A beaver’s home is called a ______.
31. Air gets into and out of a beaver’s home through a ______
______.
32. Beavers eat wood.TrueFalse
33. A baby beaver is a ______.
34. Beavers are specifically equipped to swim underwater.TrueFalse
35. What is the purpose of beavers slamming their tails down on water?
______
______
36. Name two manmade things beavers destroy:
______
______
37. Animals in order Insectivora are animals that ______
and can’t be ______
38. Where are hedgehogs found?
North AmericaSouth AmericaAfrica
EuropeAsiaAustralia
39. Hedgehogs’ quills are initially spiky.TrueFalse
40. What does a hedgehog do when it is threatened?
______
______
41. What is a hedgehog’s main food?______
42. Hedgehogs can eat poisonous plants without negative consequences.
TrueFalse
43. These animals are considered evil:
______
44. A shrew’s poision can kill a human.TrueFalse
45. Shrews can climb trees and swim.TrueFalse
46. A shrew’s strongest sense is its sense of sight.TrueFalse
47. A poisonous shrew-like animal is the ______
48. Where are these poisonous creatures found?
______
______
49. Treeshrews used to be classified with ______.
50. Most treeshrews are not arboreal.TrueFalse
51. Where do tresshrews live?
______
______
52. Lagos is Greek and means ______
53. Morph is Greek and means ______
54. What separates lagomorphs from rodents?
______
55. What gross thing do lagomorphs do to get the most nutrients from their food by processing food through their system twice?
______
______
56. The edible feces of a lagomorph is drywet
57. What are the two groups of lagomorphs?
______
______
58.
Rabbits and Hares / Pikas______ears / ______, round ears
______legs / ______legs
Tail with ______underneath / ______tail
More ______
Live in ______areas / Live in ______areas
59. Where do Pikas live?
______
______
60. Name two ways hares and rabbits are different:
1) ______
2) ______
61. Precocial means animals are born ______
62. The opposite of precocial is ______.
63. Dermoptera means ______
64. Giant, funny, “winged” animals with 2 known species are known as
______.
65. The skin a colugo has that can stretch out like a parachute to glide with is called a
______.
66. Colugos are the mammals with the most extensive patagium.
TrueFalse
67. Animals in order Monotremata are different from other mammals because they
______
68. The two animals in order Monotremata are ______and
______.
69. Name two features a platypus has that resembles other animals:
______resembles a ______
______resembles a ______
70. People first thought that platypuses were ______.
71. Platypuses nurse their young.TrueFalse
72. Platypuses are designed for ______.
73. Male platypuses have a poisonous defense.TrueFalse
74. How many eggs do platypuses lay at once?
1258
75. A platypus’s bill detects ______that
help them find animals to eat.
76. What animals is an echidna a mixture of?
______
______
______
77. What are the different types of echidnas?
______
______
78. Two forms of defense for an echidna are:
1) ______
2) ______
79. Echidnas lay their eggs in a ______.
80. Edentata means ______
81. Sloths live in ______and
______America in ______
82. Sloths sleep ______hours a day and spend ______of their time upside down.
83. Why do sloths go to the ground?
______
84. The two groups of sloths are :
1) ______
2) ______
85. Which type of sloth is faster?______
86. What organism (living creature) does a sloth have a symbiotic relationship with?
______
87. How does that creature benefit a sloth?
______
88. Anteaters have no teeth.TrueFalse
89. Anteaters eat ______, ______,
______, and ______
90. Anteaters climb trees. TrueFalse
91. Anteaters mainly live in
North AmericaCentral AmericaSouth America
92. Like apes, anteaters are ______.
93. Anteaters detect prey using their ______
94. An anteater’s tongue is 1234
feet long!
95. How many insects can anteaters eat each day?
3003,00030,000300,000
96. All armadillos can roll into balls.TrueFalse
97. An armadillo’s strongest sense is its sense of smell.TrueFalse
98. Armadillos only eat insects.TrueFalse
99. What species of armadillo can be found in the United States?
______
100. Armadillos swim well.TrueFalse
101. How many young do armadillos give birth to? ______
102. What’s special about an armadillo’s young?
______
103. People eat armadillos.TrueFalse
104. An anteater’s look-alike is the ______.
105. An aardvark is diurnalnocturnal
106. An aardvark issolitarysocial
107. Aardvarks eat ______and ______like an anteater.
108. The word “aardvark” comes from the ______language and
means ______.
109. Name four differences between an anteater and an aardvark:
______
______
______
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