Owl Quiz - week of 5/18/15

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Owl practice quiz
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Questão 1

Questão
Why do birds migrate?
Responda
  • To find resources
  • To find food
  • To find nesting
  • To run away from danger

Questão 2

Questão
What RESOURCES do birds in the northern hemisphere gain by flying south in the winter and north in the spring?
Responda
  • More water
  • Budding Plants
  • Nesting Locations
  • Less crowded areas
  • Growing insect populations

Questão 3

Questão
What is a FLYWAY?
Responda
  • The way birds organize themselves as they fly south
  • The path a bird takes during migration (migration corridor)
  • A special form of flying where birds move up and down quickly during migration
  • A word meaning "running away from predators"

Questão 4

Questão
Migrating birds can cover thousands of miles in their annual travels.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 5

Questão
Most migrating birds choose a completely different path every year.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 6

Questão
First year birds may migrate to a winter home they have never seen and return the following spring to the area in which they were born
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 7

Questão
What are some techniques migrating birds use to navigate?
Responda
  • Some birds use the stars to navigate
  • Some use sense of hearing to try to hear which routes are the safest
  • Some sense changes in the earth's magnetic field
  • The secrets of birds' amazing navigational skills remain largely hidden.
  • Some use sense of smell

Questão 8

Questão
What hazards do birds face during migration?
Responda
  • MAN-MADE STRUCTURES - Radio/TV/cell towers that attract birds to the light, and collisions with glass
  • SUN - Birds often get too heated by the sun
  • WEATHER - can blow birds off course or kill them directly
  • TIMING - arriving early can lead to freezing or lack of food and a late spring can lead to starvation.
  • BOREDOM - birds often get bored and distracted when migrating
  • PREDATORS - Hawks, falcons, and domesticated cats

Questão 9

Questão
Which bird travels the greatest distance during migration
Responda
  • Bald Eagle
  • Red Tailed Hawk
  • The Sparrow
  • The Arctic Tern

Questão 10

Questão
How many miles can it travel each year?
Responda
  • 1,000
  • 60,000
  • 24,000
  • 50,000

Questão 11

Questão
How many miles can it fly during it's LIFETIME?
Responda
  • more than 800,000 miles
  • more than 1 million miles
  • more than 20,000 miles
  • more than 1,000 miles

Questão 12

Questão
Owls are birds of ___________________.
Responda
  • the daytime
  • happiness
  • wisdom
  • prey

Questão 13

Questão
What are some characteristics of birds of prey?
Responda
  • Carnivorous
  • Sharp, curved beak and talons
  • Very large heads
  • Keen eyesight

Questão 14

Questão
What do the fringed feathers on owls enable them to do?
Responda
  • Swim
  • Fly silently
  • Scare predators
  • Shield themselves from rocks and sharp objects

Questão 15

Questão
Owls have small eyes on the front of their heads
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 16

Questão
Because owl eyes are fixed, they can rotate their head to see behind them
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
Some owls use sonar to locate prey
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

Questão
What are places where owls ARE NOT found living?
Responda
  • The United States
  • parts of Greenland
  • some remote islands
  • Canada
  • Antartica

Questão 19

Questão
What is the PROVENTRICULUS?
Responda
  • The part of the owl where other wastes are excreted
  • The second part of the stomach that acts as a filter for indigestible items.
  • The first part of the stomach that contains enzymes and acids that digest food.

Questão 20

Questão
What is the VENTRICULUS
Responda
  • The first part of the stomach that contains enzymes and acids that digest food.
  • The second part of the stomach that acts as a filter for indigestible items.
  • The part of the owl where other wastes (other than pellets) are excreted

Questão 21

Questão
What type of vision do owls have?
Responda
  • Excellent near-sighted vision
  • Excellent far-sighted vision

Questão 22

Questão
How many degrees in either direction can owls move their necks?
Responda
  • 160
  • 360
  • 270
  • 60

Questão 23

Questão
How many degrees vertically can owls move their necks?
Responda
  • 360
  • 270
  • 90
  • 60

Questão 24

Questão
Why do owls have large eyes?
Responda
  • To prevent them from getting eye diseases
  • To help them see better at night by taking in more light
  • To scare away large predators

Questão 25

Questão
How many eyelids do owls have?
Responda
  • 5
  • 2
  • 1
  • 3

Questão 26

Questão
What are 3 things owls use their eyelids for?
Responda
  • Upper lid - for blinking
  • Upper lid - for sharpening their vision
  • Lower lid - for sleeping
  • Nictating Membrane - for cleaning and protecting surface of the eye

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