If you were to go to visit a salamander at a vernal pool, when would you go?

1.   ?    Day
2.   ?    Night
3.   ?    Anytime of day is good

Yellow spotted salamanders belong to a group of salamanders called ____________ salamanders because they spend much of their life underground.

1.   ?    subsurface
2.   ?    mole                                                           
3.   ?     muddy                                                           All above photographs  © 2002, Leo P. Kenney

Vernal pools give the animals that lay eggs in them a better chance of surviving than a pond.

1.   ?    True
2.   ?    False
3.   ?    Neither true of false                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            © 2002, Leo P. Kenney

No fish can live in vernal pools because vernal pools ___________

1.   ?    are too small
2.   ?    are too shallow
3.   ?    dry up

                                                                                                 © 2002, Leo P. Kenney                                            © 2002, Leo P. Kenney

1.   ?    endangered
2.   ?    scarce
3.   ?    threatened
4.   ?    a species of special concern

The salamander larvae has ________ located behind its head to allow it to breathe underwater.

1.   ?    wings
2.   ?    fins
3.   ?    gills

                                                                                                                                                      © 2002, Leo P. Kenney