Science Chapter 7: Mammals

Question 0

Rodents that are found on every continent.

Answer 0

Mice and rats.

Question 1

Over one half of all known species are?

Answer 1

Rodents.

Question 2

Agile graceful movers with large bushy tails.

Answer 2

Tree squirrel.

Question 3

Squirrel that can be red black or dark gray.

Answer 3

Red squirrel.

Question 4

Squirrel homes.

Answer 4

Drey.

Question 5

Most common North American tree squirrel.

Answer 5

Gray squirrel.

Question 6

Squirrels that have less bushy and shorter tails than tree squirrels.

Answer 6

Ground squirrels.

Question 7

Squirrels that glide between trees.

Answer 7

Flying squirrels.

Question 8

Natures finest engineers.

Answer 8

Beavers.

Question 9

Beavers home.

Answer 9

Lodges.

Question 10

The largest rodents.

Answer 10

Capybara.

Question 11

Use stiff quills to protect themselves.

Answer 11

Porcupines.

Question 12

Lagomorhs are different from rodents because?

Answer 12

They have four upper incisor teeth.

Question 13

Hooves mammals.

Answer 13

Ungulates.

Question 14

Perissodactyla

Answer 14

Odd toed ungulates.

Question 15

Make up the order Lagomorpha.

Answer 15

Rabbits, hares, and pikas.

Question 16

Resemble pigs with snouts.

Answer 16

Tapirs.

Question 17

Have only one toe.

Answer 17

Equids.

Question 18

Artiodactyla.

Answer 18

Even toed ungulates.

Question 19

Includes cattle, sheep, goats, and antelope and are probably the most useful group of Artiodactyls.

Answer 19

Bovids.

Question 20

Animals that chew cud.

Answer 20

Ruminants.

Question 21

Wildebeest found on the open plains of Kenya.

Answer 21

Gnu.

Question 22

A Himalayan ox found at altitudes of 20,000 ft.

Answer 22

Yak.

Question 23

The most agile and graceful of the antelopes and travel in herds of 20 to 100.

Answer 23

Impala.

Question 24

A four toed Artiodactyl useful for providing meat and skins.

Answer 24

Deer.

Question 25

Deer are ? Feeding on grasses and other plants that grow close to the ground.

Answer 25

Browsers.

Question 26

Baby deer.

Answer 26

Fawn.

Question 27

Type of deer that weighs 1,800 lbs

Answer 27

Alaskan moose.

Question 28

Type of Chilean deer that is only one foot all a the shoulder.

Answer 28

Pudu.

Question 29

Animals commonly used as transportation in the desert.

Answer 29

Camels.

Question 30

The two species of camels.

Answer 30

Bactrian (two humps) and Arabian (one hump).

Question 31

camels humps are vast stores of?

Answer 31

Fat (not water)

Question 32

The tallest living animal.

Answer 32

Giraffe.

Question 33

The first chamber of a ruminants four chambered stomach.

Answer 33

Rumen.

Question 34

Plant matter that is heated, worked on by microorganisms that can digest cellulose and is formed into a ball.

Answer 34

Cud.

Question 35

The second chamber of a ruminants stomach.

Answer 35

The reticulum.

Question 36

The third chamber in a ruminants stomach.

Answer 36

Omasum.

Question 37

The fourth chamber of a ruminants stomach.

Answer 37

The abomasum.

Question 38

Artiodactyls that have four tusks and wartlike bumps on their face.

Answer 38

Wart hogs.

Question 39

Are smaller than wart hogs and spend most of their time rooting in the dirt.

Answer 39

Boar.

Question 40

Artiodactyl that stays submerged under water are consider one of Africa’s most deadly animals and weighs 2 tons.

Answer 40

Hippopotamus.

Question 41

True horns are found on.

Answer 41

Ruminants.

Question 42

Has a bony core surrounded by a hollow sheath of hardened skin called horn.

Answer 42

Horns.

Question 43

Are found in adult deer.

Answer 43

Antlers.

Question 44

Dead bone without a covering.

Answer 44

Antler.

Question 45

A blood vessel rich covering on a deer antler.

Answer 45

Velvet.

Question 46

Type of deer that grows the longest antlers.

Answer 46

Alaskan bull moose.

Question 47

The only animal born with “horns”.

Answer 47

Giraffe.