| 1. Explain the meaning
of "animal," "invertebrate," "vertebrate," and "mammal." Name three characteristic
that distinguish mammals from all other animals.
2. Explain how the animal
kingdom is classified. Explain where mammals fit in the classification
of animals. Classify three mammals from phylum through species.
3. Do ONE of the following:
a. Spend 3 hours
in each of two different kinds of natural habitats or at different elevations.
List the different mamma species and individual members that you identified
by sight or sign. Tell why all mammals do not live in the same kind of
habitat.
b. Spend 3 hours on each
of 5 days on at least a 25- acre area. List the mammal species you identified
by sight or sign.
c. From study and reading,
write a simple history of one nongame mammal that lives in your area. Tell
how this mammal lived before its habitat was affected in any way by man.
Tell how it reproduces, what it eats, what eats it, and its natural habitat.
Describe its dependency upon plants, upon other animals (including man),
and how they depend upon it. Tell how it is helpful or harmful to man.
4. Do ONE of the following:
a. Under the guidance
of a nature center or natural history museum, make two study skins of rats
or mice. Tell the uses of study skins and mounted specimens respectively.
b. Take good pictures of
two kinds of mammals in the wild. Record light conditions, film used, exposure,
and other factors, including notes on the activities of the pictured animals.
c. Write a life history
of a native game mammal that lives in your area, covering the points outlined
in requirement 3c. List sources for this information.
d. Make and bait a tracking
pit. Report what mammals and other animals came to the bait.
e. Visit a natural history
museum. Report on how specimens are prepared and cataloged. Explain the
purposes of museums.
f. Write a report of 500
words on a book about a mammal species.
g. Trace two possible food
chains of carnivorous mammals from the soil through four stages to the
mammal.
5. Work with your counselor,
select and carry out one project that will influence the numbers of one
or more mammals. |
