Equine Science
Jeopardy!
VITALS
GAITS
NUTRITION
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ANATOMY
HEALTH
The normal body
temperature of an
adult horse.
98.6F
100F
103F
1
The average
heart rate for an adult
horse at rest?
200
90
35
2
The normal respiration
rate for an adult horse at
rest.
10
35
75
100
3
Name three things
that will
.
increase the respiration
rate of a horse.
4
Identify the type of horse
that will have a normal
higher temperature,
respiration and heart rate.
5
A four beat gait …
clip clop clip clop.
Jog or Trot
Walk
Canter or Lope
6
A 2-beat gait. The feet
move in diagonal pairs
making a clip-clop, clipclop sound.
Walk
Trot/Jog
Canter/Lope
7
A 3-beat gait that lifts all
four of the horse’s feet
completely off the ground
at the same time.
78
A thunderous roll of all
four feet moving at a
fast pace.
9
The speed of a race horse in
a graceful super-speedy
galloping gait.
10
Name the two main
ingredients a horse needs
in his daily diet.
11
How much water can a
horse easily drink in one
day?
15
30
60
100
12
Founder, colic,
overweight, underweight,
poor hooves
or coat quality.
13
Horse’s age, condition,
activity, metabolism and
the seasonal climate.
14
This should be the main
part of a horse’s diet
every day.
15
Name four physiology
systems of an equine.
16
The number of bones in a
skeleton of a horse.
17
The horse uses it to find food,
water and identify other
horses and humans.
18
Name an undesirable trait
of the horse’s jawbone.
19
The number of muscles
controlling each of the horse’s
ears so that they can turn their
ears in almost any direction.
20
This can damage a
horse’s tissue, internal
organs, blood vessels,
intestines, liver, lungs,
and stomach.
21
Name three ways to
prevent disease.
22
Fiddleneck, Oleander,
Yellow Star Thistle, and
Wild Onion are a few.
23
Type of fencing not
recommended for horses.
24
Name 4 habits of good
horsemanship.
25
What is 100F?
1
What is 35 beats per
minute?
2
What is 10 times per
minute?
(8-16 average)
3
What is exercise,
temperature, humidity,
fever, stress, pain,
dehydration, and/or
anxiety?
4
What is a foal?
5
What is a walk?
6
What is a Trot or Jog?
7
What is Canter or Lope?
8
What is a Gallop or
Running?
9
What is 45 miles
per hour?
10
What is water and
roughage (hay, grains,
mixed feeds, pasture)?
11
What is 15 gallons?
(depending upon activity
level and climate)
12
What might happen if
you feed your horse too
much, too little or poor
quality feed?
13
What determines what
and how much to feed
your horse?
14
What is good
quality hay?
15
What are the skeletal,
muscular, respiratory,
circulatory, digestive,
nervous, endocrine,
reproductive and/or
integumentary?
16
What is 205?
(vertebral column, 54; ribs, 36;
sternum, 1; skull, 34; thoracic
limbs, 40; pelvic limbs, 40)
17
What is the
sense of smell?
18
What is monkey mouth
(undershot jaw) or parrot
mouth (overshot jaw)?
19
What is 10?
(The horse can detect the
direction of sound before it can
visually detect the source and
can hear sounds from great
distances.)
20
What are parasites?
21
What are vaccinations,
de-worming, provide
fresh water & quality
feed, feed in areas that
are manure-free, and/or
clean stall regularly ?
22
What plants are
poisonous to horses?
23
What is barbed wire?
24
What is wear a safety helmet,
wear boots with a heel, groom &
check horse before saddling,
check tack for wear & fit, let
someone know where you are
riding, when you will return and
who you are riding with?
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