Big Changes in the Big Forest: Crash Course Kids #38.2

The prairie dog burrow is an example of _______

• animal engineering

• human activity

• irrigation

• an unchanged environment

What is NOT a common side chamber prairie dog's build into their burrows?

• a chamber for sleeping

• a chamber for cleaning

• a chamber of storage

• a chamber for using the bathroom

Which statement is true?

• Animals can adapt their environment by adding to it, not removing matter from it.

• Animals can adapt their environment by removing matter from it, not by adding to it.

• Animals can adapt their environment by adding matter to it or by removing matter from it.

• Animals cannot adapt their environment.

What is NOT an example of beavers adapting their environment.

• Beavers adapt the forest by choosing which trees to bring down.

• Beavers adapt the landscape by constructing dams that change fields and forests into wetlands.

• Beavers adapt the flowing water of a stream to still water of a pond.

• Beavers adapt tree growth by digging burrows under trees and limiting the space for roots.

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Which animal in the video adapts its environment by accidentally planting trees?

• Prairie dogs

• Termites

• Squirrels

• Beavers

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How tall can termite mounds be built?

• 1 meter

• 3 meters

• 5 meters

• 10 meters