Dogs
Skill Level: 1
Category: Nature
Original Honor: 1950
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Originating Institution: General Conference
Requirements:
- Give the scientific name of the dog family.
- Name five distinctive characteristics of the dog family.
- Identify from pictures or personal observation five wild members of the dog family.
- Identify from pictures or personal observation 25 different breeds of dogs.
- Name five contributions the dog family has made to man.
- Give the name of the smallest and largest breed of dog.
- Write or describe orally the value to man of the following dogs:
a. Seeing-eye
b. Saint Bernard
c. Shepherd
d. Collie
e. Eskimo - Write or tell what special contribution dogs have made to man in wartime.
- Identify from pictures or personal observation five dogs that are classed as "toy" dogs.
- What is the only dog that has a wholly blue or black tongue?
- Which is the fastest-running dog?
- Which member of the "toy" dogs has become the most popular?
- What dog has been especially helpful in tracking criminals?
- Write or tell a dog story