Questions and Answers for the Game "Do You Know?"

Print the following questions and answers to be used as an instructor's guide. Click on the number in front of each question to go to a page that contains only that question and its answer. Print each question/answer page and fold and attach it to a durable material to create a set of game cards. Remember to use your browser's "back" button to return to this page. For instructions on how to play the game, please consult the "Procedure" section of the "Habitat, Sweet Habitat" lesson plans (to return to "Habitat, Sweet Habitat" click your browser's "back" button from this page, or click on the back link at the bottom of this page).
1. Question:
What is a habitat?
Answer:
A habitat is a place that has everything a living thing needs to survive.
2. Question:
What are some of the things that people must have in order to live?
Answer:
People need food, water, air, shelter, clothing, and tool in order to live.
3. Question:
What do animals need in order to live?
Answer:
Animals need food, water, air, shelter, and space in order to live.
4. Question:
Why does an animal need food?
Answer:
An animal needs food so that it can grow and have enegry for movement and other body activities.
5. Question:
Where does an animal get food?
Answer:
An animal gets food from its environment; its surroundings. Some animals eat only plants. Other animals eat both plants and animals. Finally, some animals eat dead or decaying animals.
6. Question:
What is an animal called that eats only plants?
Answer:
An animal that eats only plants is called a herbivore.
7. Question:
What is an animal called that eats other animals?
Answer:
An animal that eats other animals is called a carnivore.
8. Question:
What is an animal called that eats both plants and animals?
Answer:
An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals.
9. Question:
What is an animal called that eats dead or decaying animals?
Answer:
A scavenger is an animal that eats dead or decaying animals.
10. Question:
Why does an animal need water?
Answer:
Fish, beavers, some frogs, turtles, snakes, and insect larvae are examples of animals that need water for their homes. Animals also drink water, find their food in water, clean their food with water, and wash themselves with water.
11. Question:
Where can an animal get water in its habitat?
Answer:
An animal can get water by drinking it from a stream, pond, or depression in which water collects. Also, an animal can get water by eating plants or other animals. All living things have water in their body cells.
12. Question:
Why does an animal need shelter?
Answer:
An animal needs shelter for a resting place, as a place to bear and raise its young, a place to store food, as well as a place to protect itsself from enemies and inclement weather.
13. Question:
Why does an animal need space?
Answer:
An animal needs space to find food, raise its young, and exercise and rest. Each kind of animal requires a different amount of space.
14. Question:
What are some of the habitats found in the Pinelands?
Answer:
There are many different habitats in the Pinelands. These include uplands (pitch pines and oak forests), wetlands (cedar swamps, marshes, cranberry bogs), and bodies of water (rivers, streams, lakes/reservoirs).
15. Question:
What is an upland area of the Pinelands?
Answer:
This is land that is relatively high in elevation and dry. Dry uplands cover about three quaters of the Pinelands. Some trees and shrubs that grow in it are pitch pine, post oak, scrub oak, laurel, huckleberries, and sand myrtle. "The Plains", along Route 72 in Burlington County, New Jersey, are an example of Pinelands uplands. Here, pines and oaks are no taller than a man.
16. Question:
What is a bog?
Answer:
A bog is a wet area with spongy soil in which the water table is at or near the earth's surface. Cranberries are an agricultural crop that needs an abundant, pure water supply, therefore, they are grown in bogs.
17. Question:
What is a swamp?
Answer:
A swamp is low lying ground in which water collects. Cedar trees or swamp maple trees may grow in a swamp.
18. Question:
What is a pond?
Answer:
A pond is a still body of water that is smaller than a lake. Ponds are often manmade and may be stocked with fish.
19. Question:
What is a stream?
Answer:
A stream is a narrow body of water that flows into another larger body of water.
20. Question:
What is a river?
Answer:
A river is a body of water that is larger than a stream and flows into a lake or an ocean.
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