Question | Answer |
Patterns of stars in the sky | Constellations |
The ability a bird has to reach its destination without getting lost | Homing Instinct |
Donut shaped heat pockets in the air upon which some birds surf or glide | Thermals |
What we call it when a bird's flight muscles pull the wing down | Down Stroke |
Chemicals in a living creature that regulate behavior. These are believed to tell a bird when to migrate | Hormones |
A device sailors once used to measure the position of the stars in order to navigate | Sextant |
3 Specific things birds use for navigation | Landmarks, Sun & Stars, Magnetic Field |
The length of a day | Photoperiod |
When animals sleep during the winter | Hibernate |
What we call it when a bird's flight muscles pull the wings up | Up Stroke |
The bone that makes up the bird's wing | Humerus (be able to locate and label) |
The bone attached to the bird's flight muscles | Keel (be able to loate and label) |
Be able to explain the different ways a bird steers | Tail used as a rudder, tilting onew wing higher than the other, flapping one wing faster than the other |
Be able to explain a bird's special breathing sysytem | See page 68 |
Explain why many birds fly in formation and name birds which do | See page 69 |