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New York Cares 2009 Gina and Alex

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL

HISTORY

SCAVENGER HUNT • Begin on the 4th floor.

• Take the stairs since they are faster than the elevators.

• Look but do not touch while in the museum.

• Keep your voices low but feel free to discuss everything!

• No running, so walk and enjoy!

Question 1: When you find the dinosaur with a row of plates on its back and

spikes on its tail, you are in the right hall. What is its name?

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Question 2: Look around. Find two moving jaws in this hall. What are the

names of the two motions?

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Question 3: To find where to proceed next, find a duck or is it a duck? It

will be facing in the direction of the next area. Since it is not really a duck

what is it?

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Question 4: The duck will point you in the direction where you will find the

longest tooth you have ever seen. What animal’s mouth is the tooth in?

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Question 5: Move to the next hall and find the largest deer ever to have

lived and the extinct relatives of the elephants.

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Question 6: The next area begins with the largest jaws you have ever seen

flying on the ceiling. What animal did they come from?

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Question 7: Look for an animal with a hard shell, soft arms and legs, a head

that can hide and lives for a long, long time. You have not seen one bigger

than this, what is it?

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Question 8: They look like birds but they are flying reptiles. What is their

scientific name? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _


Re-group at the orientation center next to the big dinosaur. The team

leader will give you three names of extinct animals. Can you name

today’s relatives?

Question 9: Find the dinosaur that lays the largest eggs.

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Wait for the expert, they will teach you about remains of a distant,

lost world.

Question 10: On your way out of the hall think about being on a beach.

These animals would be flying above you trying to eat your sandwich! How

many do you see that are in flight? _ _

Meet us at the 4th floor meeting point; tell us the

magic phase using the letters you have discovered

highlighted. This will lead you to the next adventure.

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3rd floor (Reptiles and Amphibians)

Question 11: If you were traveling through the swamps of Southern United

States what would you see a crocodile or an alligator? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Question 12: The number of the flying seagulls plus the number of the

letters of the reptile name above, it will give you the length of the longest

snake. How long is it? _ _ feet. And what is its name?

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When you find a turtle with leather on its back, turn around and go to

the hall where antelopes run in the steps of Africa trying to escape the

hungry lions and rhinoceros play in the water holes.

Question 13: Find a monkey that looks like a skunk

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Question 14: If a white rhino that lives in Zaire, travels to see its black

rhino cousin where he would be going? _ _ _ _ _


Question 15: What is the name of the baboon with the blue and the red

face? _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Question 16: If you were a cheetah, how long it would take you to go from

New York to Boston (NY to Boston 210 miles)? _ hours

Meet us at the 3rd floor meeting point; find the magic

word using the highlighted letters, not necessary in

the same order, if it is correct the team leader will

tell you where to go next

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2nd floor (Hall of African Mammals)

Question 17: If you have a team of acrobats, all 6 feet tall, how many

acrobats would you need standing on each other’s shoulders to pet a giraffe?

_

Question 18: If you have a team of weight lifter athletes who each can lift

100 pounds, how many do you need to lift an African buffalo _

Question 19: How much heavier is the largest antelope than the African

buffalo? _ _ _ _ pounds.

What is the name of the antelope?

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Question 20: What is the name of a forest dwelling relative of the giraffe,

whose legs look like zebras legs?

_ _ _ _ _

Meet up at the meeting point of the 2nd floor before you go to the next

hall.

Move to the Asian Mammals Hall


Question 21: How many Asian elephants and Indian Rhinos are on display?

_ elephants and _ rhinos

Question 22: Find a smooth otter, what does it have in its mouth?

_ _ _ _

Meet us at the 2nd floor meeting point and go to the

first floor, where nature shows its diversity …

The team leader will give you the next set of clues.


1st floor (Hall of Biodiversity)

Question 23: Go into the rain forest, do you see any animals? What are

they? _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Question 24: Look at the ceiling: Look for creatures with tentacles, one has

long and thin ones and the other has shorter and thicker

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Go to the hall of Ocean Life

Question 25: Why do some fish light up under water?

Question 26: What is this process called?

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Question 27: How much does a blue whale weigh?

_ _ _ _ _ _ pounds

Question 28: How long a whale lives? _ _ to _ _ years

Question 39: What does a blue whale eat? _ _ _ _ _

Question 30: How a dolphin navigates in the ocean?


L N E W Y

E L A H W

O R I K C

A R E R S

F I S H K

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Meet up at the 1st floor meeting point.

The following three words are in the puzzle before you: fish, whale, krill.

Remove these words from the puzzle and the secret phrase will be revealed.

Speak this phrase to your team leader to enter the next level.


Hall of Planet Earth (Base of Heilbrunn pathway)

Question 31: Mission to Mars: What kind of energy moves the robot that

explores Mars? _ _ _ _ _

Question 32: How many galaxies in the universe?

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Question 33: What is the Big Bang?

Question 34: What type of rocks hit the earth every now and then?

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Do you see any around you what is its name? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

What is made of? _ _ _ _


THIS IS TO CERTIFY

HAS COMPLETED THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL

HISTORY SCAVENGER HUNT

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