Animal Sleuth Worksheet #1

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This is a great worksheet for use with a unit study on animals. The questions for this worksheet are all true or false. They are high-interest questions that can be used to grab a child’s interest on this subject.

Answer true or false:

1. In Asia, there is a deer that is only nine inches high called the mouse deer
2. Mayflies live for two hours.
3. The albatross can take a nap while it flies.
4. When chimpanzees say hello to each other, they touch noses.
5. When a gorilla is mad, it closes its eyes.
6. All mosquitoes bite.
7. A giraffe has the same number of neck bones as a human – seven.
8. No two zebras have the same stripes.
9. Julius Caesar had a pet giraffe.
10. Charles V of Spain had no pets.
11. King Louis IX of France had a pet elephant and a pet porcupine. 12. Napoleon and Josephine had a dog.

Answers:

1. true
2. true
3. true
4. false – they touch hands
5. false – it sticks out its tongue
6. false – only the female mosquitoes bite
7. true
8. true
9. true
10. false – Charles V had seven pet seals
11. true
12. false – they had a pet orangutan

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