“Animal Jobs: #20 Aeration” Quiz
1. What is aeration?
Aeration is how air moves into different parts of the environment.
#2. What are fossorial animals?
Animals that live mostly underground and are adapted for digging are called
fossorial.
#3. How does soil get aerated?
Digging tunnels!
#4. Why is soil aeration important?
Plant roots need air, which makes the aeration tunnels important to them.
#5. What do termites like to eat?
Wood, because they like the cellulose wood is made of.
#6. What job besides aeration do termites do?
Decomposers! Since their favorite food is dead tree wood, that makes them decomposers too!
#7. True or False: termites build small mounds.
FALSE! They can get HUGE!
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