Answers to the Scavenger Hunt

1. 14
2. a. 5
b. 3
c. 7  (barn has no visible people)
3. 2
4. Horses
5. 4
Soft Shell Turtle, Spotted Salamander, Snapping Turtle
6. Eastern Chipmunk
7. Hummingbird
8. Cicada
9. 3 - one Gopher & two Raccoons
10. (spiders are not insects - they are a special classification called arachnids)
11. Snails
12. 11
13. a. 70 to 150 million
b. The French (les beoufs)
c. 2,500,000
d. True
14. Meat to eat, dung for fires, brains for tanning hides, gallstones for yellow paint, hooves boiled to make glue, horns for cups & spoons, small bones for knives & tools, sinew for bowstrings and thread, tails for shooing flies.
15. Hides used for storage of food and clothes, making water troughs for horses, covering for boats, for robes, teepees and useful for trading.

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