How Creepy Animals Help Grow Our Food

Question 1

Snakes eat rodents. Farmers like that because..

Accepted Answer

Rodents damage crops

Question 2

A single insect-eating bat can consume hundreds of pest insects in a night, equivalent to half its body weight.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

More than 600 different species of spiders patrol U.S. croplands, keeping crop-eating pests under control.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

All animals that are important to healthy functioning farms are large in size.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Why are skunks beneficial to farmers?

Accepted Answer

They eat pest insects like grubs and field mice

Question 6

The soil food web on a farm includes thousands and thousands of what animals?

Accepted Answer

Beetles, springtails, and mites

Question 7

Farmers love ladybugs because they eat aphids. Why is that helpful to farmers?

Accepted Answer

Aphids are problematic insect pests that destroy crops

Question 8

What animals do coyotes keep under control in farms?

Accepted Answer

All answers are correct

Questions 8