Exploring Creation With Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day Table of Contents

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1 Exploring Creation With Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day Table of Contents Lesson 1: What is Zoology?...1 Classification... 2 Latin... 4 Binomial Nomenclature... 5 Flight... 6 Uplifting Pressure... 6 Airfoil... 8 What a Drag... 8 Mid-Lesson Break... 9 Mid-Lesson Experiment Habitats Instinct Extinction Extinction Errors What Do You Remember? Notebook Activities Project Lesson 2: What Makes a Bird a Bird?...21 Bird Watching Benefits of Birds Identifying Birds Field Guides Do You Reside Here? Field Marks Wings Crests What s in a Name? Passerines From Large to Small Bird Behavior Habitats Bird Banter Songs and Calls Claims to Territory The Purpose of Calls Other Communications Bird Banding What Do You Remember? Notebook Activities Project Scientific Experiment... 39

2 Lesson 3: Birds of a Feather...41 Feather Facts Molting Feather Features Contour Feathers Down Feathers Semiplume Feathers Filoplume Feathers Bristles Preening Cormorants Feather Color Bird Baths Sunbathing What Do You Remember? Notebook Activities Project Experiment Lesson 4: Flying Factuals...57 Mighty Muscles Takeoff Steering Flapping and Gliding Soaring Seabirds Migration Why Do They Say Good-bye? Knowing Where to Go Using Landmarks Sun and Stars Magnetic Fields Enough Eating? Are We There Yet? Champion Migrator Perils on the Path How High Can You Go? Flocks or Loners Left Alone What Do You Remember? Nature Points Notebook Activity Experiment xii

3 Lesson 5: Nesting...73 Home Builders...74 Types of Nests...75 Unusual Nests...75 Weavers...76 No Nests...76 Ground and Mound Nesters...78 Earth-Hole Nesters...79 Cavity Nesters...79 Platform Nesters...81 Cup Nesters...82 Adherent Nests...83 Egg Color...84 What Do You Remember?...85 Nature Points...85 Notebook Activities...85 Project...86 Experiment...88 Lesson 6: Matching and Hatching...89 Showcase Helpful Mates Single Parents Exceptional Eggs Clutch Incubation Development in the Egg Egg Tooth Baby Birds Precocial Birds What Do You Remember? Nature Points Notebook Activities Experiment Optional Experiment Lesson 7: Bats Keystone Bats Bat Anatomy Echolocation Creation Confirmation Microbats What Big Ears You Have Megabats xiii

4 Bat Habitats Guano Winter Homes Breeding The Nursery What Do You Remember? Notebook Activities Project Lesson 8: Flying Reptiles Pterosaurs Pterosaurs in History Types of Pterosaurs Pterosaur Lifestyle Powered Flight Other Pterosaur Lifestyle Issues What Do You Remember? Notebook Activities Activity Lesson 9: A First Look at Insects Identifying Insects What Good are They? Cold-Blooded Exoskeleton Molting Insect Heads Insect Eyes Antennae Mouths Thorax The Abdomen What Do You Remember? Nature Points Notebook Activities Project Lesson 10: Insect Life Cyles and Life Styles Finding a Mate Metamorphosis Complete Metamorphosis Incomplete Metamorphosis More Incomplete Metamorphosis xiv

5 Insect Life Styles Crypsis Advertisement Mimicry Trickery Chemical Defense Creation Confirmation Bites and Stings What Do You Remember? Nature Points Notebook Activities Projects Experiment Lesson 11: Social Insects Hymenoptera Worker Ant Jobs Ant Talk Ant Food The Ant Shepherds and Farmers The Honeybee Royal Food The Queen Bee Worker Bees Dancing Bees Flower Power Making Honey Bumblebees Wasps Termites Creation Confirmation Ants versus Termites What Do You Remember? Nature Points Notebook Activities Project Experiment Lesson 12: Beetles, Flies, and True Bugs Beetle Behavior Both Beneficial and Pesky Scarab Beetles Fireflies/Lightning Bugs Ladybugs Flies xv

6 Mosquitoes True Bugs What Do You Remember? Nature Points Notebook Activities Experiment Lesson 13: Interesting Insects Praying Mantises Dragonflies and Damselflies Winging It Seeing More than Double Feeding on the Fly Water Babies Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Katydids Hearing Legs and Abdomens Chomp and Chew Swarming Leg Power Differences among Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Katydids Dangers and Defense Looking for Members of Order Orthoptera Aphids Cicadas Creation Confirmation What Do You Remember? Nature Points Notebook Activity Experiment Lesson 14: Order Lepidoptera Creation Confirmation Lep Anatomy Antennae Drinking Straws Thorax Migration More Metamorphosis Cocoon Chrysalis What s the Difference? Home Sweet Home Butterfly Pets Notebook Activities Experiment xvi

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