Insects, crustaceans and arachnids are types of __________.
What is arthropods?
200
What is an animal without a backbone?
What is an invertebrate?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
Name two reasons that scientists think of birds as living dinosaurs.
What is
they have scales
or
a 150 million year old animal was found with feathers like a bird
200
Reptiles are ______-blooded.
What is cold?
200
What is the name for growth of new parts?
What is regeneration?
200
Like other vertebrates, birds have a backbone and ________ skeleton.
What is internal skeleton?
300
Define endoskeleton
What is an internal skeleton?
300
What is the term for the
maximum amount of time that an animal can live under the BEST conditions?
What is life span?
300
What organ allows a fish to rise or sink in water?
What is swim bladder?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
Name an animal that is warm blooded
300
What is another name for an arachnid?
What is spider?
400
What is the name of a 4 footed vertebrate?
What is tetrapod?
400
Name the term for the time an animal might live depending on its surrounding conditions, example, think of an animal locked in a dark dirty cage with no food vs an animal with access to fresh food and sunlight
What is life expectancy?
400
The first vertebrates were fish without __________.
What is jaws?
400
What is the name of the process that a living thing uses to make more of its own kind?
What is reproduction?
400
What is the name of the process that describes when a frog changes from a tadpole to an adult?
What is metamorphosis?
Morph means change
500
What is the name for an animal that at some point in its life has a large nerve cord running down its back?
What is chordate?
500
Name 2 ways that invertebrates help humans.
What is
-we eat them
-pollinate plants
500
Skin covered with scales is a characteristic shared by reptiles and ___________.
What is fish ?
500
What is the name of the body tissue that is not as hard as bone, but not as soft as flesh? It's also what your nose is made of.
What is cartilage?
500
What class of animals live part of their life on land and in water? (Hint - think of frogs)