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4th Grade Daily Scie
Big Idea 1- week 1
Question | Answer |
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What is a Habitat | A place where a plant or an animal naturally live. |
What do Beavers build their habitats with? | Trees and water |
Where do beavers run for safety? | The forest |
What does a beaver use to cut down a tree? | They use their teeth. |
What do beavers build out of sticks and logs. | They build dams. |
What does a dam do to water? | Blocks the water to make a deep water hole. |
What is a lodge? | The dome shaped home that beavers build of mud, sticks, and logs. |
A moat around a castle is like a... | Pond around a beaver's lodge |
Where is the entrance to a beaver's lodge? | Underwater |
What animals hunt beavers? | Foxes, bobcats, and coyotes |
Why do beavers need trees? | They use trees to survive. |
What is erosion? | The moving of rocks and soil by moving water and wind. |
Name two positive effects of and two negative effects of beaver dams? | Positive Effects: Create new habitats, slow soil erosion Negative Effects: Destroy Trees, Cause silt to build up and flood the land |
What is silt? | Small particles of soil deposited by water |
What is a wetland? | A habitat where shallow water to cover most of the ground. |