Match the following. 1. Feelers a. Cause 'sleeping sickness' 2. Preening b. Help feel, taste, and smell something 3. Tsetse flies c. The long, pointed beak 4. Duck d. Cleaning feathers 5. Kingfisher e. Flat, broad beak

1- b The head of the insect contains two eyes, a mouth and a pair of feelers. Feelers are used for feeling things, smelling and tasting. 2- d Birds regularly clean, oil and reshape their feathers using their beaks which are called preening. 3- a Tsetse flies are found in Africa. They cause 'sleeping sickness'. 4- e Ducks and swans are semiaquatic animals that have flat and broad beaks. They look for food such as fish and weeds in the water. They have a filter at the edge of the beak. They pick up the food along with water. When they close their beak, the water flows out and food is trapped in the beak. 5- c Birds like storks, herons and kingfishers have long, pointed beaks. They usually pick up fish from the water with their beak. 1. Feeler b. Help feel, taste, and smell something. 2. Preening d. Cleaning feathers 3. Tsetse flies a. Cause 'sleeping sickness' 4. Duck e. Flat, broad beak 5. Kingfisher c. Long, pointed beak

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I Care My Book of Environmental Awareness>Chapter 12 - Birds and Insects>Exercises>Q B

Match the following.

1. Feelers	a. Cause 'sleeping sickness'
2. Preening	b. Help feel, taste, and smell something
3. Tsetse flies	c. The long, pointed beak
4. Duck	d. Cleaning feathers
5. Kingfisher	e. Flat, broad beak