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Review Sheet for VT 3376:"Eyewitness: Dog"

 

  1. Wolves are close cousins of _______________________, the favorite family pet.
  2. All dogs retain the instinct for the __________________ and enjoy the _____________________.
  3. All dogs/foxes/coyotes/wolves are _____________________________.
  4. Dogs have long jaws and sharp teeth for many uses. These include:
  1. All dogs have clawed toes useful for ________________________________.
  2. The sense (so to speak) that is most important to dogs is their sense of _____________________.
  3. Fossil ancestors of dogs stem from at least _______________________ million years ago.
  4. During the Ice Age approximately 18,000 years ago, wolves met up with ______________________, so that by 4,000 years ago, a new"human-dog" pack was born.
  5. Wild dogs use ____________________________ to bring down prey larger than themselves. This helps to establish the fierce pack loyalty still seen in dogs today.
  6. A dog's nose has _________________ times as many smell cells as that of a human being's.
  7. Dog ears are sensitive to sound. In addition, a desert fox's ears are large to ___________________, but an arctic fox's ears are small to ________________________________________________.
  8. Huskies (and other) dogs pant in order to ___________________________________________.
  9. One reason that greyhounds are so fast is that up to ______________________ of their (light) body weight is muscle.
  10. The first living creature (from Earth, at least!) sent up into space was a _________________ in 1957.
  11. Cultural literacy time: the three-headed dog guarding the gates of Hades of Greek mythology was _______________________________.
  12. Many legends (and Hollywood movies) tell of man-wolf transformers called __________________.
  13. Dogs"wolf down" their food because _______________________________________________.
  14. Puppies lick the face of the mother dog so that she will ____________________________ food.
  15. Dogs have sweat glands located only on their _______________________________________.
  16. Most pet dogs today are picked for their ____________________________________.
  17. Many people have pet dogs. There are at least _____________ million of them in Great Britain, and over __________________________ million in the United States.
  18. It is natural for dogs to ____________________________________________________, which helps to explain all of the"rest stops" when you're walking Fido!
  19. Wild dogs such as ________________________ are currently drawn to human habitats such as cities.
  20. Who's getting the best of the human - dog relationship? _________________________________

 

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