Natural habitats/reason for domestication Flashcards
What is the natural habitat of a mouse?
Wide range of habitats such as fields, woodlands, hedgerows and old building.
What is the natural habitat of a European wildcat?
Forests
What is the natural habitat of a guinea pig?
Grasslands, scrubland and rocky outcrops.
What is the natural habitat of gerbils?
Deserts.
What is the natural habitat of a wolf?
Artic tundra, plains savannahs and forests.
What is the natural habitat of a African wildcat?
Variety of habitats such as scrub, grassland and agricultural land.
What is the natural habitat of a rabbit?
Variety such as woodlands, moorlands, farmland and sand dunes.
What is the natural habitat of a ferret?
Lowland wooded habitats, marshes along riverbanks, farm building or dry stone walls.
What is the natural habitat of a rat?
Originally grasslands in China but have spread worldwide and found in a range of habitats including sewers, cities, farms and attics.
What is the natural habitat of a hamster?
Sand dunes and edges of desserts.
Why did rabbits become domesticated?
They were used for food as a meat substitute during lent. They were also used for their fur.
Why were cats first domesticated?
Due to their ability to hunt and control vermin.
How were dogs domesticated?
The process happened gradually as wolves became more comfortable with humans. Eating the human scraps. Eventually humans encouraged the wolves to stay and then eventually bred them to encourage certain traits.
Why were guinea pigs domesticated?
As a source of meat.
Why were ferrets domesticated?
As they were small and thin they were able to hunt rabbits as they could fit into there burrows.
Why were mice/rats domesticated?
For lab experiments.
