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Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 1 What is Zoology?

1. What is instinct?

2. Can you think of any animal instincts?

3. What is one reason the dinosaurs may have become extinct?

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 2 What Makes a Bird a Bird?

1. What is a benefit of birds? y

2. Why is it important to know what habitat a bird prefers? y

3. What are some reasons a bird sings?

4. What are some reasons a bird might call?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 2 What Makes a Bird a Bird?

5. What is the history of bird banding?

6. What are passerines?

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 3 Birds of a Feather 1. What does it mean for a bird to molt?

2. What is the hard, stick-like structure that runs the length of some types of feathers?

3. What part of the feather attaches to the bird s body?

4. What is the soft part of a feather called?

5. What does it mean to have hooded barbules?

6. What is preening?

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 3 Birds of a Feather

7. Where are flight feathers located?

8. What are the five basic types of feathers? y

9. What do some birds bathe in other than water?

10. Why do scientists think they do this?

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 4 Flying Factuals

1. How are bird bones different from the bones of other animals?

2. Where are a bird s flight muscles located?

3. Tell about the different kinds of flying birds do.

4. What does a bird use its tail for when flying?

5. What causes a bird to migrate?

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 4 Flying Factuals

6. How does a bird find its way while migrating? y

7. Why do some birds flock together while migrating?

8. Why do others migrate alone?

9. What is the benefit of flying in formation?

10. Which birds abandon their young when they migrate?

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 5 Nesting

1. Name a few birds that don t build nests.

2. What is a mound nest?

3. What is the difference between an earth-hole nest and a cavity nest?

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 5 Nesting

4. How long is the tunnel in which a puffin builds its nest?

5. Where does a Red-headed Woodpecker like to nest?

6. Where does a cardinal like to nest?

7. Which birds build platform nests?

8. Which is the most common type of nest?

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 6 Matching and Hatching

1. Which is usually more colorful, a male or a female bird?

2. What do you call a group of eggs in a nest?

3. What is it called when a mother bird sits on her eggs?

4. What are the patches of featherless skin called that a bird develops when incubating its eggs, and what is their purpose?

5. Can you name the parts of an egg? (Draw a diagram like the one on page 94 to illustrate each part.)

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 6 Matching and Hatching

6. What is the name of the bump on the bird s beak that helps it break out of the shell?

7. If a bird is completely dependent on its parents, what is it called?

8. If a bird is born with feathers and the ability to see and walk around, what is it called?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 7 Bats

1. Explain echolocation in your own words.

2. What are the differences between microbats and megabats?

Characteristic 1. Size 2. Food 3. Appearance 4. Resting Wing Position

Microbats

Megabats

3. What beneficial tasks do bats perform?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 7 Bats

4. Where are some of the different places that bats roost?

5. What is interesting about bat hibernation and migration?

6. How do mother bats care for their pups?

7. Why would you want to attract bats to your neighborhood?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 8 Flying Reptiles

1. Explain what it is like to be a paleontologist.

2. Which ancient people wrote about animals that may have been pterosaurs?

3. Which modern day people talk about and draw pictures of animals that look like pterosaurs? y y

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 8 Flying Reptiles

4. What are the two basic groups of pterosaurs?

y 5. Which group had the largest pterosaurs?

6. Which group had the smallest?

7. What were a pterosaur s bones like?

8. What part of a pterosaur s brain is very large?

9. What does this tell us about pterosaurs?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 9 A First Look at Insects

1. How can you tell the difference between insects and other crawling creatures?

2. What are the three segments of an insect s body?

3. What is interesting about an insect s eyes?

4. What are they called?

5. What are simple eyes?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 9 A First Look at Insects

6. What are the three kinds of insect mouths?

7. To what part of an insect s body are the legs and wings attached?

8. How does an insect breathe?

9. What is an ovipositor? What is it used for?

10. What are cerci? What are they used for?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 10 Insect Life Cycles and Life Styles

1. Explain what a lek is.

2. What is complete metamorphosis, and what are its stages?

Stages:

3. What is the difference between complete metamorphosis and incomplete metamorphosis?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 10 Insect Life Cycles and Life Styles

4. What are the stages of incomplete metamorphosis? y

5. What is an immature dragonfly called?

6. List the six different kinds of insect defenses discussed in this lesson.

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 10 Insect Life Cycles and Life Styles

7. Explain how the bombardier beetle defends itself.

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 11 Social Insects

1. What is the job of a queen ant or bee?

2. That is the job of a drone ant or bee?

3. What are the jobs of the workers? (Name at least four jobs.) y

4. Which are the males and which are the females? Male Female

5. Which insect do ants keep as pets ?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 11 Social Insects

6. Why do they do this?

7. Explain some of the ways bees take care of the hive.

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 11 Social Insects

8. Explain the bee dance and what it tells the other bees.

9. How are bumble bees different from honeybees?

10. How are Africanized bees different from honeybees?

11. What do social wasps make their nests out of?

12. What is a solitary wasp?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 11 Social Insects

13. How are termites different from bees and ants in the jobs each animal in the colony has and the social order of the colony?

14. How do termites give evidence for creation?

15. How can you tell termites from ants?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 12 Beetles, Flies, and True Bugs

1. How can you tell a beetle from other insects?

2. Which beetles are beneficial?

3. Describe the tip of a scarab beetle s antennae when it is open and when it is closed. Open:

Closed:

4. What is the term that describes the way a firefly makes light?

5. What is special about a firefly s light?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 12 Beetles, Flies, and True Bugs

6. How many wings do flies have?

7. Where are their halteres and what do they do?

8. Why do mosquitoes feed on human blood?

9. What attracts them?

10. How can you keep their population down?

11. How can you tell a robber fly from a wasp or bee?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 12 Beetles, Flies, and True Bugs

12. What makes a bug a true bug?

13. What makes water striders able to walk on water?

14. What are giant water bugs sometimes call toe biters ?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 13 Interesting Insects

1. What is another name for a praying mantis?

2. Explain the metamorphosis of a dragonfly.

Stage 1:

Stage 2:

Stage 3:

3. What kind of metamorphosis does a dragonfly undergo?

4. What is the difference between a locust and a grasshopper?

5. Where are a grasshopper s ears ?

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WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Exploring Creations with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

Lesson 13 Interesting Insects

6. How can you tell grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids apart?

Characteristic Color Wings Antennae Activity

Grasshopper

Cricket

Katydid

7. Which cicadas live for two years underground?

8. Which cicadas live for 17 years under the ground?

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