Vocabulary
An animal that has a spine or backbone.
Vertebrate
An animal that does not have a spine.
Invertebrate
Most life cycles start with what?
An egg.
Most insects have a ____ which is the outer covering of its body.
exoskeleton
Name three types of birds.
Answers may vary
The physical change some animals go through to become adults.
Metamorphosis
cold
True or false. The larva hatches from the egg?
True
Name three types of mammals
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What type of water can you find reptiles in?
fresh, salty and sea water. Also on land (even though the question asked for water.)
The animal's body temperature depends on whether it is hot or cold outsides is what?
Cold blooded
Animals that maintain a constant body temperature regardless of the temperature outsides is what?
warm blooded
What stage comes after the pupa?
The adult
True of false. Reptiles are born with strong instincts.
The word amphibian means what?
Two lives
Putting things into groups is called?
Classification
True or false: Birds are cold blooded animals that lay eggs, has feathers, wings, and a beak. IF FALSE make it true.
False. They are warm blooded.
What are the stages of a frog's life cycle?
egg, tadpole, adult
Name two types of amphibians
frogs, toads, salamanders, newts
Birds do this in the winter? And why?
Migrate because they cannot adapt to the colder weather and the food is scarce at that time.
Explain most characteristics of a mammal.
A warm blooded vertebrate animal that feeds its young with milk, have fur or hair, and breathe air with lungs.
Though they both have gills at one point and breathe underwater, amphibians go through metamorphosis and change then develop lungs to live on land.
What is the difference between complete and incomplete metamorphosis?
Mammals eat different types of food. Tell me what a carnivore would eat? Name an animal that is one.
They would eat meat. Tiger or lion.
True or false.
Some birds eat plants while others eat insects. There are also birds that eat other animals like fish or snakes.