Salamander Challenge
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If you were to go to visit a salamander at a vernal pool, when would you go?
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Day
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Night
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Anytime of day is good
Yellow spotted salamanders belong to a group of salamanders called ____________ salamanders because they spend much of their life underground.
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subsurface
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mole
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muddy
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Kenney
Vernal pools give the animals that lay eggs in them a better chance of surviving than a pond.
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True
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False
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Neither true of false
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Kenney
No fish can live in vernal pools because vernal pools ___________
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are too small
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are too shallow
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dry up
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Kenney
© 2002, Leo P.
Kenney
If there are not a lot of one kind of animal we say that the animal is classified as ________ (pick three answers)
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endangered
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scarce
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threatened
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a species of special concern
The salamander larvae has ________ located behind its head to allow it to breathe underwater.
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wings
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fins
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gills
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Kenney
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