1. What threatened the sugar cane crop in the 1930’s?
2. What did Australians decide to do to about the threatened sugar cane crop? Why?
3. What is the term used to describe the sexual clasping of amphibians proceeding egg laying and fertilization?
4. How many eggs can a female cane toad lay?
5. What is the life cycle of a cane toad?
6. Were the Cane Toads efficient at eating the Cane Grubs and Beetles? Why or why not?
7. Where are the glands in the cane toad that produce the toxic material located?
8. What is an alternative use of the Cane Toad’s toxin?
9. What is the maximum penalty you can receive for carrying the drug from the Cane Toad?
10. How do Cane Toads kill fish?
11. Explain how you feel the Cane Toad has changed the ecosystem of Australia.
2. What did Australians decide to do to about the threatened sugar cane crop? Why?
Cane Grub
3. What is the term used to describe the sexual clasping of amphibians proceeding egg laying and fertilization?
Control of sugar cane crop naturally.
4. How many eggs can a female cane toad lay?
40,000 in a summer.
5. What is the life cycle of a cane toad?
Egg-> tadpoles -> Can toad
6. Were the Cane Toads efficient at eating the Cane Grubs and Beetles? Why or why not?
No, because they didn't mit well together.
7. Where are the glands in the cane toad that produce the toxic material located?
On the skin of the shoulders.
8. What is an alternative use of the Cane Toad’s toxin?
Drugs
9. What is the maximum penalty you can receive for carrying the drug from the Cane Toad?
Life in prison
10. How do Cane Toads kill fish?
Jump on the back of the fish.
11. Explain how you feel the Cane Toad has changed the ecosystem of Australia.
I feel that the Cane Toad was a invasive species because they eat anything and it was adaptable to environment, reproductive, good predator defense or no predator, they are really hard to get rid of, th