Eggs and Behavior
What is preening?
These feathers are lightweight and provide insulation.
What are down feathers?
This is the largest living lizard.
What is the Komodo dragon?
Paper wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets are considered this type of wasp.
What are social wasps?
This is the sperm-containing fluid released by a male fish.
What is milt?
This is how insect populations are controlled, using other insects, pathogens, or parasites.
What is biological control?
This fluid feeds an unhatched chick.
What is the yolk?
The general term referring to bird feathers.
What is plumage?
This crocodilian has a wide snout and its teeth are hidden when the jaw is closed.
What is an alligator?
This is the largest family of butterflies.
What are brush-footed butterflies?
This is the largest known fish.
What is the whale shark?
The general word for an animal with 4 limbs.
What is a tetrapod?
The protective layer of an egg between the hard outer shell and the albumen.
What is the shell membrane?
This is the fastest flying bird.
What is the peregrine falcon?
This crocodilian has a narrow snout and teeth that show when the jaw is closed.
What is a crocodile?
This is the largest lepidopteran.
What is the Hercules moth?
These are small external breathing holes found on sharks and rays.
What are spiracles?
The longest living animal.
What is the tortoise?
This is what the outer shell of a bird's egg is made of.
What is calcium carbonate?
This group includes carnivorous hunting birds.
What are birds of prey?
The upper half of a turtle's shell.
What is a carapace?
This is what mantises are called when they hatch, when they look like tiny adult mantises.
What are nymphs?
These are tooth-like scales on sharks.
What are denticles?
This group of amphibians includes frogs and toads.
What are anurans?
This is the migration route taken by birds year-after-year.
What is a flyway?
This is the food storage sac in the bird's esophagus.
What is the crop?
These are the pigment-containing cells under the skin that allow lizards to change colors.
What are chromatophores?
This is the part of a beetle that resembles a shell.
What is the elytra?
This cartilaginous fish does not have jaws or a sucking organ.
What is a hagfish?
The largest living reptiles.
What are crocodilians?
The flight type where birds flap for a few seconds then glide for a few seconds.
What is intermittent flight?
What bird feathers are made of.
What is keratin?
This lizard-like reptile has a parietal eye.
What is a tuatara?
This is the part of the mouth of an insect that forms the pincer.
What is the mandible?
The hard, movable, protective plate that covers the gills of bony fish.
What are operculum?
The world's smallest snakes.
What are blind snakes?
The term for a chick that hatches with down feathers and can run or swim soon after hatching.
What is precocial?
This structure provides an anchor for a bird's flight muscles.
What is the keel?
The only two known venomous lizards.
What are the Mexican beaded lizard and the Gila monster?
This is the changing from baby to an adult
What is metamorphosis?
The W-shaped bands of skeletal muscle on a fish.
What are myomeres?
Old-world lizards that have long necks and tails, long forked tongues, and powerful legs.
What are monitor lizards?
This is the protective layer of reptile eggs
What is amnion?
This organ allows a bird to produce sound.
What is the syrinx?
This is what sirens use to survive dry conditions. (It's a type of dormancy)
What is estivation?
Skates and sawfish are a part of this group of cartilaginous fish.
What are rays?
This type of snake venom attacks the circulatory system.
What is hemotoxic venom?