Animal Needs
Body Parts
Behaviors
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
What are the basic needs of animals?
Shelter, Food, Water, Oxygen, and Climate
100
What are the three types of body coverings?
Fur, scales, and feathers
100
What is an instinct?
An instinct is a behavior that an animal begins life with.
100
A gas in the air that animals need is called ______.
Oxygen
100
Why are a bird's bones hollow?
Fly more easily.
200
What is climate?
Climate is the average temperature and rainfall of an area over many years.
200
What is an adaptation?
An adaptation is a body part or behavior that helps an animal meet its needs in its environment.
200
Give an example of an instinct.
Monarch butterflies fly south for the winter.
200
What is hibernation?
A long, deep "sleep"
200
What are the main ways to get oxygen?
Lungs and gills.
300
What is shelter?
A shelter is a place where an animal is protected from other animals or from the weather.
300
What part of the body of a bird is different? For what reasons? (explain one)
Beak-different for eating Feet-catching prey
300
Give an example of a learned behavior.
Tigers learn to hunt from their mothers. They are not born with this skill.
300
The movement from one region to another and back again is called __________.
Migration
300
List three bird adaptations.
beaks, feathers, talons, hollow bones, large eyes
400
What is metamorphosis? Give an example.
Metamorphosis is a process of change. Examples: larva to butterfly, egg to frog
400
What is camouflage? Give an example.
Camouflage is an animal's color or pattern that helps it blend in with its surroundings. A chameleon's color changes to match its surroundings.
400
Why do birds migrate in the winter?
For a warmer climate and food.
400
What is a learned behavior?
A learned behavior is one you are not born with, it is something you learn as time goes on.
400
Why do fish have scales?
Fish have scales to keep them from drying out.
500
Everything that surrounds and affects an animal is its _____________. What can be met in an animal's _________?
Environment. It's 5 basic needs can be met there.
500
What is mimicry? Give an example.
Mimicry is an adaptation in which an animal looks very much like another animal or object. Walking stick insect looks like a twig/stick.
500
What happens during hibernation?
-body temperature drops -breathing rate falls -heartbeat rate falls
500
When a frog goes from an egg to a frog, with steps in between, what is that called?
Metamorphosis
500
Give an example of a climate and name two animals that would live there.
Wet and warm: monkeys, hummingbirds cold: penguins warm and dry: jaguars
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