Discussion Questions 1. In this video we learned that snakes don't usually come after people. Discuss the ways that snakes warn animals and people, and the ways that people have to be careful when in an area that might have snakes. Describe areas in your community where snakes probably live. Snakes are an important part in the food chain that regulates the population of some animals, especially rodents.
Snakes are also food for other birds and animals.
Discuss what might happen in your community if you got rid of all the snakes. Use drawings to illustrate where the food chain would be changed. This site offers a new snake to identify each week. Read this book to learn about snakes, the most common reptile. The snake lives on almost every continent, in almost every climate, on both land and in water.