The Ron Clapp Nature Trail Activity Book

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1 The Ron Clapp Nature Trail Activity Book By The 2008 Adventurers

2 Ron Clapp Memorial Trail Animal Signs Scavenger Hunt As you walk through the trails look closely to see if you can find the items listed below. As you find each item you can check the box. Please leave the items where you find them so others can enjoy this activity too. Mole Hole Deer Tracks Raccoon Tracks Rubbings on tree bark from a deer Snake hole Deer Droppings Abandoned nest Beaver hut Abandoned Beaver Lodge Chewed pine cones Snake paths Woodpecker holes Cob Webs Chewed leaves Deer trail Beaver trail into water Chewed acorns Snake skin

3 Write about beavers: The Ron Clapp Nature Trail Beavers

4 Beaver Crossword Across 2. What do beavers use to hold sticks together in their dams? 3. Beavers have large front which they use to cut down trees. 5. Beavers cut these down with their teeth. 8. A small piece of wood. 9. Somebody who catches beavers. 11. What color are beavers? 12. What do beavers build? Down 1. What do you call a beaver's home? 4. What did people use to make out of beaver fur? 5. Beavers have very large. 6. Beavers the water with their tail when there is danger. 7. What do you call a beaver's hair? 8. A small river. 10. A small area of water that beaver's make.

5 The Ron Clapp Nature Trail Beaver Cloze Fill in the blanks with the words above the paragraph. Beavers stream ponds teeth tail dam A beaver is an animal that has large front and a large on its back. Beavers live in that they make by building a on a small river or. Beavers the Builders sticks twigs trees mud Beavers can cut down with their powerful teeth. They use the and from the trees to build their dams. They also use from the ground to hold everything together and fill in the holes. Beavers Lodges predators build slaps lodges underwater Beavers their homes in the middle of their ponds. Their homes are called. The entrance to the lodge is. This helps protect the beavers from. When a beaver sees a dangerous predator like a wolf the beaver its tail on the water and hides in the lodge.

6 The Fur Trade fur trappers warm hats In the past, people called hunted beavers for their valuable. Beaver fur is very so their fur was used to make.

7 Ron Clapp Memorial Nature Trail Pond Habitat Vocabulary Below are words that will help you better understand the pond habitat. Check out these words and then complete the word search below. Forest words: Habitat: A place where a plant or animal naturally lives Trail: Man-made path Forest: A large area with a lot of trees and plants Rail bed: A foundation where railroad tracks travel through Barbed wire fence: A fence made with wooden posts and sharp wire Biology: The study of living things Conservation: Protecting our environment Naturalist: A person who studies nature Hibernate: To spend the winter sleeping Nocturnal: Animals that are awake at night Pond Wildlife words: Beaver lodge: A place where beavers sleep and store food for the winter Gray squirrel: A gray rodent with a bushy tail who loves to jump from tree to tree and eats acorns and seeds found in the forest

8 Beaver: A large rodent with a leathery, black tail that lives in ponds. A baby beaver is called a Kit. Beaver Dam: A dam is built by a beaver with sticks and mud to help stop the water flow Pond and forest vegetation words: Cat tail: A tall plant that lives in a pond with long, flat leaves and a brown, furry spike Eastern White Pine: A tree with green pine needles in bunches of five that grows very tall stays green all year Fern: A plant that is about 12 inches tall with feathery, green leaves Eastern Red Oak: A tree that grows between 50 and 70 feet tall and has leaves that are 5 to 8 inches long. The tree has seeds called acorns. Golden rod: A tall plant with bright yellow flowers in late summer

9 The Ron Clapp Memorial Trail Pond Habitat Wordsearch N O C X V W N C T O C L V E V L F N A W V B Z L A A A O R R V P C C E P A A V E F P V G L T D N A R E N I R K T O J S H H A B I T A T S I Y E V R N U F J B X C Z W V A M Q N E L F T I A R E S F J Z Z Z P I K A O P R J F U V A E L O D G E L N L X P F L X V U Q Q L W F B R M H G S Z E Q U K D M A S T I E T A N R E B I H F M E Z F A D T L S C V N X N V E G W B A J X Y B K L I T R C O E S T Y V H K D V P S D I V H O D T A O N O C A V Z J O U Z I G O O U N B Z V I D O A M I L Q R F V A X L T S E R O F A L N T C F F X N S X Y Y O N E K A D M Y H B S F E K B E D S T V G T S T E C R C Q G E S R N B D F I O N Y L G D C B O Z K V E D N M Z L V J X B W S N N U G H I J V R W Y V T O U B Y K C K J D H B E R W W B E H I B G M S G V T M G X H P B O P I E K R M Y U Q K S A Q T G C R A L O F T J R P S I S BEAVER BIOLOGY CATTAIL CONSERVATION DAM FENCE FERN FOREST GOLDENROD HABITAT HIBERNATE LODGE NATURALIST NOCTURNAL OAK PINE RAILBED SQUIRREL TRAIL

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