9.2

Question 1

Insulate and protect the birds from cold

Answer 1

Light feathers

Question 2

Wing feather or tail,is made of hundreds of hairlike barbs connected to a stiff hollow quill,each barb is held in place by hundreds of barbules which connect together with tiny hooks

Answer 2

Flight feathers

Question 3

Do not have tiny hooks that interlock the barbules of flight feathers,

Answer 3

Body feathers

Question 4

Have no hooks at all

Answer 4

Down feathers

Question 5

Clean and straightened

Answer 5

Preen

Question 6

Which are strengthened by tiny cross ribs from within

Answer 6

Air filled bones

Question 7

The largest bird in the world

Answer 7

Ostriches

Question 8

Rheas,emus,and cassowaries

Answer 8

Relatives of ostriches

Question 9

Are hidden in the forests of new Guinea near Australia

Answer 9

Birds of paradise

Question 10

In Africa would never be considered beautiful

Answer 10

Horn bills

Question 11

Oversized head and its long skinny legs, whale headed stork

Answer 11

Shoe bill

Question 12

Perhaps the most unusual bird

Answer 12

Humming birds