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Exploratory Ag – Natural Resources
Over the Hedge & Animal Adaptations
1. What do you think it means if something has an adaptation?
2. Choose two animals from the film, and describe at least three ways they survive. This
could be physical features, behaviors, etc.
Animal 1: ______________________________________
3 ways they survive:
Animal 2: ______________________________________
3 ways they survive:
3. The group of animals we see identify themselves as foragers – what does this mean?
How do they obtain food, and what do they do with it?
4. Are the animals depicted herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores?
5. Humans move in next door to the animals, what affect does this have on their normal
life? Explain including at least one specific example.
6. What do they eat before the humans move in?
7. After finding the humans, how do their ‘foraging’ habits change, and what do they eat?
8. What does it mean if an animal hibernates?
9. The change in the animals’ natural environment would most likely:
a. Cause a decrease in their population
b. Cause an increase in their population
c. Cause no change at all
d. Cause immediate extinction of each specie
10. What is the result of the animals’ actions?
a. The humans took more measures to get rid of them
b. They get a lot more food than they need
c. They become used to getting food more easily
d. All of the above
11. Reflect on the movie within the context of wildlife and natural resources. What can we
learn from this? Could the people and animals have lived in the same area more
peacefully, and if so how?