Animal types
Life Cycle
Vocabulary
Critical Thinking
Insects
100
What type of animal has feathers, 2 wings, 2 legs, and lungs to breathe with called?
What is a bird.
100
What is the beginning or first step of the life cycle of a bird or fish?
What is an egg.
100
What is a safe place in which an animal can stay like a home called for an animal?
What is a shelter.
100
Tell 2 reasons why an animal would not survive without food. (What does food do for an animal?)
What is food helps the animal to grow and food gives the animal energy.
100
How many legs does an insect have?
What is 6 legs.
200
What type of animal lives its whole life in water and breathes through gills called?
What is a fish.
200
What do we call the second stage in the life cycle of a frog after it hatches from the egg?
What is a tadpole.
200
What do we call all the animals with backbones?
What is a vertebrate.
200
How is the life cycle of a bird similar to the life cycle of a fish?
What is they both begin as an egg.
200
Since insects do not have a backbone, we call them what?
What is an invertebrate.
300
What type of animal has fur or hair, breathes with lungs, gives birth to live babies, and produces milk for their babies called?
What is a mammal.
300
What do we call the life cycle stage when an insect hatches from the egg?
What is larva.
300
What do we call it when living things make more of their own kind?
What is reproduction.
300
What are the 4 needs of all living things?
What are food, water, a gas like oxygen, and space.
300
What are the 3 body parts of an insect called?
What is the head, thorax, and abdomen.
400
What type of animal has scaly skin and breathes through lungs called?
What is a reptile.
400
What do we call the stage of an insects' life right before it becomes an adult?
What is pupa.
400
What are all living things called?
What are organisms.
400
How are mammals and reptiles similar?
What is they both are vertebrates.
400
What body part do you find the 6 legs and wings on an insect?
What is the thorax.
500
What is the animal type that begins its life in water and has gills, but then later its gills change to lungs and it lives on land called?
What is an amphibian.
500
What do we call the process when some organisms change their shape in their life cycles?
What is metamorphosis.
500
Everything that surrounds a living thing is called what?
What is an environment.
500
Name 3 characteristics of mammals and then describe how each characteristic is useful to the mammal.
What is fur or hair to keep the animal warm in cold weather, produces milk for their babies so that they can grow and live, and they have lungs to breathe oxygen to stay alive.
500
What do we call the thin, hard covering that surrounds certain animals' (insects) bodies called?
What is the exoskeleton.
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