AY Honors/Harmful Animals/Answer Key

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1. What are harmful animals?

Harmful animals do harm to humans by spreading disease, causing injury, destroying crops and goods, or otherwise causing unpleasant effects. An animal can be harmful in certain circumstances but not in others. For example bees produce tasty honey and pollinate plants but if they attack a human it hurts.

2. What is the difference between harmful animals and poisonous animals?

Some harmful animals are poisonous but not all poisonous animals are harmful.

3. Know how some harmful animals can be directly related to some epidemics and pandemics.

4. Know at least 4 kinds of diseases transmitted by harmful animals.

Rabies
Malaria

5. How can animals harm plants and the lives of other animals?

Invasive species of dangerous animals can create problems for established species. The harmful animal may kill off other species directly by eating them, or indirectly by using up resources the established species needs to survive.

6. Choose and present the following characteristics of two harmful animals:

a. Habitat

b. Type of sexual reproduction

c. Eating habits

d. Diseases and harm to humans

e. Prevention

See examples in Requirement 7

7. Name at least three harmful animals in the following classes:

8. Discover why some harmful animals are important for the balance of their ecosystem.

9. Learn four ways to protect yourself from harmful animals that can be found in homes or businesses.

10. Complete at least one of the following activities:

a. Visit a zoo or place of research where you can observe harmful animals and present a report.

Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Zoo Visit

b. With the help of a leader, identify at least 10 harmful animals and present a list with the scientific name, common name, picture and place where it was found.

The answers to Requirement 7 have the required information for 12 harmful animals.