Classifying Animals
What is a Capon?
A male chicken that has been castrated and is not able to reproduce.
What is Poultry?
Fowl domesticated by humans to produce meat, eggs, and feathers.
What is the Shell?
The hard, outer coating of the
egg, made mostly of calcium carbonate.
What is a Litter?
A group of animals born together from the same female
What is Humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is a Fowl?
All chickens regardless of age or gender.
What is a Broiler?
A chicken raised specifically for meat.
What is the Shell Membrane?
A pair of thin layers that protect the embryo from contaminants, such as bacteria that may enter
the egg.
What is a Carnivore?
An animal that eats meat (flesh).
What is Wilting?
The loss of rigidity of non-woody plant parts
due to diminished water in the cells.
What is a Hen?
A mature female chicken.
What is a layer?
A chicken raised specifically for meat.
What is a Candling?
The testing of an egg for freshness or fertility by shining a light through it.
What is a Dewclaw?
The innermost and shortest claw on a cat’s paw
What does Air Quality mean?
A measure of how clean or polluted the air is.
What is a Chick?
A newly hatched chicken of either gender.
What is a Poult?
A newly hatched turkey that is not fully covered with adult feathers.
What is a Blastoderm?
The fertilized blastodisc that will develop into the embryo.
What does Declawed mean?
A cat that has had its claws surgically
removed by a veterinarian.
What does Water Quality mean?
A measure of the suitability of water for use based on physical, chemical, and biological characteristics.
What is a Gelding?
A male horse that has been castrated and is not able to reproduce.
What is Incubation?
The period during which the embryo is developing inside the egg before hatching.
What is a Blastodisc? (also called the germinal disc)
The area on the yolk where the
embryo will begin to develop after fertilization has occurred.
What does Mongastric mean?
An animal that has a stomach with only
one compartment.
What is Salt?
A dissolved mineral such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, chloride, sulfate, and bicarbonate.