Carnivores and marine mammals
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write the 4 families of carnivores with one representative each.
Canids – wolf; felids – lynx; mustelids – badger; bears – brown bear.
2
Write one sentence each on the fox’s benefit and harm.
Benefit: eats rodents and insects; harm: sometimes eats poultry and melons.
3
Why are whales mammals, not fish?
They breathe with lungs, give live birth, nurse with milk, warm-blooded.
4
Compare pinnipeds and cetaceans by adaptation to water.
Pinnipeds come ashore, cetaceans never do.
5
Write 2 Red Book predators of Uzbekistan.
Snow leopard and lynx (also jungle cat).