Description - What does your animal look like?

A frog starts it's life as a tadpole (in the water), and changes shape a few more time before becoming an adult frog (living on land). This metamophisis is called The Life Cycle.

Frogs usually have squat bodies, with hind legs specialized for jumping, and webbed feet for swimming. Their color is usually green, but others are brightly colored, for instance black and orange or yellow and white.

How big does this animal get?

Frogs vary in size from the North American little grass frog, 0.5 in long, to the giant water frog 20 inches long.

When full grown how much does this animal weigh?

Range in weights from a few ounces several pounds.

Where does this animal live?

Habitat

Frogs can be found, living on all continents except Antarctica. They have adapted to a range of environments including deserts, forests, grasslands.

What does this animal eat?

Many frogs use their long, extensible tongues to capture insects. They also eat small fish and worms.

Where does this animal get their food?

The frog hunt for food near the water and in trees.

How long does this animal live?

In the wild, most frogs live for just a few years. In captivity, well-cared-for frogs can live for 10 or even 20 years.

How does this animal move?

Fast/slow

The frog moves by hopping (or leaping), many frogs can leap up to twenty times their body length.

Some bats, snakes, and birds.

There are about 24 different families of frog, containing more than 3,800 species.

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