Created by: Mrs.Wood’s 2nd Grade Class March 2013

Table of Contents

• What is a Frog? Page 2• Habitat/Protection Page 5• Diet Page 6• Life Cycle Page 8• WOW frog facts Page 11• Glossary Page 12• Index Page 12

What is a Frog?

Frogs are marvelous animals. The main reason is because they can live both in water and on land. This makes them amphibians. They use their skin to breathe in water.

There are many types of frogs such as Blue Dart Frog, American Bull Frog, Tomato Frog and many others

Habitat/ProtectionFrogs have many different homes.

Their habitats need food, water and space to move around. The only continent there will not be a frog found is Antartica, because it is too cold.

Because frogs are prey for other living creatures some will camouflage themselves for protection. While others like the Blue Dart frog use their colorful skin for protection, because it has poison.

Diet

Frogs are carnivores. This means they eat meat. They are not picky eaters about their meals. The eat lots of things like insects, butterflies, snails, moths, spiders, worms and mosquitos.

Some bigger frogs, like the American Bullfrog eat things like fish, mice, snakes and other frogs

As frogs are eating they swallow their food whole by using their eyes to push the food down. Usually frogs only use the upper jaw for holding the food not for chewing.

Life Cycle

A frog begins as an egg. The eggs are clear jelly like sacs. The dark spot in each egg will become a tadpole. And they often look like eyes. Many times frog eggs can be eaten by fish. Frogs lay the spawn in water. Some lay hundreds of eggs while some only lay a few.

Tadpoles will hatch from the eggs. They look like fish. They can only swim in water. Because they have gills. The tadpole will begin to grow back legs and then front legs.

As they grow to become a froglet they begin to grow lungs, and the gills close up. At this point they can come up for air and eat small insects. The lungs help the froglet to breath on land. As the tadpole grows into a frog it looses its tail.

WOW Frog Facts• Frog sounds are for calling others.• Male frogs make sounds, while female frogs do

not.• Frogs make different sounds for different reasons.• The biggest frog can be the size of a rabbit.• The smallest frog can be the size of a finger nail.• Some female frogs lay eggs on the males back.• The smallest frogs babies are born as live frogs.

Glossary• Amphibian: Is an animal that can live in water and on land.• Carnivores: Meat eaters.• Froglet: The stage of life cycle after tadpole. A young frog.• Gills: A body part that an animal uses to breathe under water.• Poisonous: Something that has a substance that can harm or kill other animals.• Spawn: frog eggs• Tadpole: The form of a frog when they first hatch from eggs.

IndexAmphibian 2Breathe 2Bull Frog 4Camouflage 5Color 5Blue Dart frog 4Eaters 6, 7Eggs 8Food 7Froglet 10Gills 9Habitat 5Lungs 10Poison 5 Prey 5Smallest Frog 13Spawn 8Tadpoles 8,9Tomato Frog 4

Meet the Authors

Mrs. Wood’s second grade class is from Fall Creek, North Carolina. They put a lot of hard work into creating this book. After much research in books and on the internet. We were inspired by the Frog Report book that we found in our Non-Fiction Book Selection. And discovering the Blue Dart Frog and frog habitats at the NC Zoo.