Name that Animal Group
I am warm-blooded. I give live birth, and I breathe with lungs. What type of animal am I?
What is a mammal.
I am a type of living thing that has a backbone. What am I called?
What is a vertebrate.
Scientists use the Dichotomous Key to _______ animals.
What is classify.
I use lungs to breathe, and I have two legs. I am warm-blooded, and my skin is covered with feathers.
What is a bird.
One of these things is not like the other:
Human, dog, canary, catfish, worm.
What is worm. (Why?)
I am cold-blooded and I lay eggs. My sometimes my skin is covered in scales. I breathe through gills. What am I?
What is a fish.
Invertebrates never have which of the following:
a) skin covering b) legs c) gills d) red blood cells e) stomach
What is red blood cells.
A platypus belongs to a special class of mammals called Monotremes. Which one of the following characteristics of Monotremes separates them from other mammals?
1. has fur 2. lays eggs 3. produces milk for babies 4. spends a majority of its time in water.
What is lays eggs.
In regards to size, the majority of invertebrates are _____.
What is small.
These 2 languages are used when giving animals their scientific names.
What is Latin or Greek.
Reptiles and amphibians are both cold-blooded, breathe through lungs, can be covered in scales or skin, and lay eggs. There is one major difference between the two classifications -- what is it?
Amphibians live their young life in water and then move onto land (they are born with gills that develop into lungs).
Amphibians tend to have skin that is "slimy," and spend their lives in both water and on land.
Crabs and crickets are both invertebrates. A crab is a crustacean, and a cricket is an insect. What type of covering do both of these creatures have in common?
What is an exoskeleton.