Vocabulary
Animals with backbones
What are vertebrates?
Structure that allows animals like fish to get oxygen from water.
What are gills?
These vertebrates have feathers, lay eggs, and are warm-blooded.
What are birds.
Animals without backbones
What are invertebrates?
A sea turtle's external structure for movement.
What are flippers?
Cold-blooded animals that use gills to breathe underwater, have fins to move, and most lay eggs underwater and have scales.
What are fish?
Animals who maintain a constant body temperature despite the outside temperature are classified as this.
What is warm-blooded?
Animals who use their environment to control or regulate their body temperature are classified as this.
What is cold-blooded?
What is camouflage?
Warm-blooded animals that have fur or hair, breathe with lungs, can live on land or in water, have live birth, and mother's feed babies milk.
What are mammals?
Invertebrate group that has an exoskeleton, 3 body parts, 6 legs, and may have wings, antennae, or a stinger.
What are insects?
Structures inside the body like bones, heart, lungs.
What are internal structures?
An external structure that helps a porcupine scare away predators.
What are quills?
Cold-blooded animals with dry, scaly skin, lay eggs on land, and are born with lungs to breathe.
What are reptiles?
The 2 groups of invertebrates that have exoskeletons.
What are insects and arthropods?
A body support structure (external structure) that is on the outside of the body.
What is an exoskeleton?
The external structure of a pelican that helps them gather food from water.
What is a beak with a pouch?
Cold-blooded animals that have moist skin, begin life with gills and breathe with lungs as an adult, and live partly in water.
What are amphibians?
Invertebrates with soft bodies, some have shells or tentacles.
What are mollusks?
These help an animal move, find and eat food, and survive in their environment.
What are external and internal structures?