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1 Question: What is ancient woodland? Answer: Woodland that is at least 400 years old orwere present before 1600AD Question: What is the most common plant found on a heathland? Answer: Heather Question: What is the first name of this common butterfly? Answer: Meadow Question: What does the call of the green woodpecker sound like? Answer: Laughing Question: Why is dead wood important? Answer: It provides food and homes for insects and minibeasts Question: Name two insects that help pollinate flowers. Answer: Bee, butterfly, moth, fly, wasp, ant Question: What bug is also called a stinkbug? Answer: Shield bug Question: What is an invertebrate? Answer: An animal without a backboone Question: Where do plants get energy? Answer: The sun Question: What are animals that eat only plants sometimes called? Answer: Herbivores

2 Question: In a food chain what are the plants known as? Answer: Producers Question: What are animals that eat only meat sometimes called? Answer: Carnivores Question: A badger eats worms and berries, in a food chain what would we call them? Answer: Omnivores Question: Name two animals that are nocturnal. Answer: Fox, badger, bat, hedgehog, owl, woodlouse, dormice, centipede, millipede, moth, lacewing Question: What lives inside cuckoo spit? Question: What do aphids eat? Answer: Froghopper larvae Answer: Sap from plants Question: What is a food chain? Question: What is plantation woodland? Answer: A food chain shows the flow of energy from one living thing to another Answer: Woodland that has been planted by people Question: What flowering plants are known indicators of ancient woodland? Answer: Wood anemone, wild garlic, wood sorrel, bluebell Question: How do woodlice breathe? Answer: Through gills on their underside

3 Question: Where do foxes live? Question: Where do rabbits live? Answer: Underground in dens Answer: Underground in burrows, a network is called a warren Question: Where do badgers live? Question: What is a squirrel s home called? Answer: Underground in a badger set Answer: A drey Question: Which side of a tree does moss grow best? Answer: The north, as it is shadierand stays damper for longer Question: Name two eight legged creatures. Answer: Spider and harvestman Draw a harvestman. Draw an ant. Question: What is the missing tree name in this poem? Draw a spider. before the ash and we re sure to get a splash Ash before the and we re sure to get a soak Answer: Oak

4 Question: IWhat are the missing ryhmes in this poem about firewood? Ash green or ash brown, fit for a queen with a golden Ash green or ash a king may warm his slippers by Answer: Crown, dry Question: What is a seed of an oak tree called? Answer: An acorn Question: Which has longer antennae a grasshopper or cricket? Answer: Cricket Question: MWhat tree sometimes has red berries, is evergreen and has prickly leaves? Answer: Holly Question: Ants have 3 parts to their bodies, a head, a thorax, but what is the third part called? Answer: Abdomen Question: What do we name the management of woods when the trees are cut down low and allowed to re-grow for 10 years or more? Answer: Coppicing Question: Which woodland flowering plant grows from a bulb and has a blue flower? Answer: Bluebell Question: Rhododendron is a foreign plant that we brought here in Victorian times, it is sometimes found in woodlands. Why is it a problem plant? Answer: It grows fast and blocks out the lights for other plants, it is toxic so animals cannot eat it, and where there are too many rhododendrons, there will not be much food for wildlife Question: Which tree would you find a conker on? Answer: A horse chestnut Question: What is Britain s only poisonous snake called? Answer: Adder

5 Question: Name two tree seeds that are spread in the wind. Answer: Birch, ash, sycamore, Scot s pine, lime Question: What plant do blackberries grow on? Answer: Bramble Question: What do we call a tree that is not evergreen, but loses its leaves in the winter? Answer: Deciduous Question: What do we call a six-legged animal? Answer: An insect Question: Name one animal found in woodland that can be called a bellyfoot.? Answer: Snail or slug Question: Caterpillars make a case around them so that they can change into a butterfly. What is the case called? Answer: Cocoon or chrysalis

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