1. The document provides information about birds in a question and answer format covering topics like feathers, bird characteristics, bird orders, and bird anatomy.
2. It asks 100 questions total divided into sections about feathers, characteristics, orders of birds, and nuts and bolts of bird anatomy.
3. The questions cover a wide range of bird facts from feather types and functions to skeletal adaptations that allow birds to fly to the taxonomic classification and typical features of different bird orders.
2. Feathers
100
What is the name of Flight Feathers
the feather that allows
birds to fly?
3. Feathers
200
What is the Down Feathers
name of the
feather that
keeps birds
warm?
4. Feathers
300
At a pet store The first 5
how many and flight
what type of feathers
feathers do
you cut to
keep the bird
from flying?
5. Feathers
400
What is the Contour
name of the Feather
feather that
gives the bird
shape?
6. Feathers
500
What is the Powder Down
name of the feather
feather that
makes the
bird water-
proof?
7. Characteristics
100
What is the name Oviparous
of the way birds
reproduce?
8. Characteristics
200
Where is the Gizzard
birds food
grinded up?
9. Characteristics
300
What do you buy Cuttlefish bone
for birds as a
source of
calcium?
10. Characteristics
400
What are 4 2 legs, All lay eggs,
Warm-blooded,
characteristics Feathers, Wings, 4
that ALL birds chamber heart, Wing
have? bones are hollow,
Enlarge sternum
11. Characteristics
500
What is the Esophagus,
order food crop, gizzard,
takes in a bird small intestine,
digestion? large intestine,
(there are 6 and cloaca.
steps)
12. Order of Bird
100
What are 2 Parrots, cockatoos,
examples of macaws, lories,
birds in the order parakeets.
Psittaciformes?
13. Order of Bird
200
What are 2 Woodpeckers
examples of and Toucans
birds in the
order Piciformes?
14. Order of Bird
300
What are 2 Robin, blue jay,
examples of starling,
birds in the cardinal,
order
Passeriformes
15. Order of Bird
400
60% of all Passeriformes
birds are in
which order?
Passeriformes
Psittaciformes
Piciformes
16. Order of Bird
500
Distinguish the Passeriformes: 4
orders toes- 3 forward and
Psittaciformes and 1 backward
Passeriformes by
Psittaciformes:
using the placement of
4 toes- 2 forward
the birds toes?
and 2 backwards.
17. Nuts & Bolts
100
Kingdom: Animalia
What Phylum: Chordata
kingdom, Class: Aves.
phylum, and
class are birds
in?
18. Nuts & Bolts
200
What is the Molting
name of the
term used
when a bird
sheds its
feathers?
19. Nuts & Bolts
300
What are the 1. Cereal seeds
names of the two 2. Oil seeds
types of seeds
feed to birds?
20. Nuts & Bolts
400
What are 2 ways 1.Scales on legs/feet,
birds and 2. Egg layers,
reptiles are 3. Bird like
similar? fossils
21. Nuts & Bolts
500
What are 3 Narrow skull,
skeletal enlarge sternum,
reasons why hollow bones,
birds can fly? ribs/vertebrae