Name that Vertebrate
An endothermic animal that gives birth to live young, feeds their young with milk, and has hair/fur.
What are mammals?
The simplest type of invertebrate, no brain, no organs, feed by filtering water.
What are sponges? (porifera)
This is when an animal is able to blend in with its environment.
What is camouflage?
A long period of rest during the winter where the animal does not do much.
What is hibernation?
This is an animal that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
An ecotherm with scaly skin and lays leathery eggs.
What are reptiles?
Has segmented bodies, an exoskeleton, includes crabs, spiders, and insects.
What are athropods?
This is when some animals, like crabs and ants, have their skeleton on the outside.
What is an exoskeleton?
Moving from one place to another, often to follow food or to find a mate.
What is migration?
This is an animal that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
Can be endothermic OR ectothermic, most lay eggs, live underwater, breathe with gills.
What are fish?
What are cnidarians?
This is the breathing structure that mammals, reptiles, and birds have.
What are lungs?
Behaviors designed to help an animal attract a mate.
What is courtship?
This is an animal that can eat meat AND plants.
What is an omnivore?
Endotherms that lay eggs and have feathers covering their skin.
What are birds?
Has a head, a strong muscular foot, can have a shell, includes squid, snails, and slugs.
What are mollusks?
This refers to when animals have their skeleton inside of their body.
What is an endoskeleton?
An example of this type of learning is when a baby goose follows its parent from place to place.
What is imprinting?
These are animals that are able to control their internal body temperature.
What are endotherms?
Ectotherms which smooth, moist skin, lay jelly-like eggs, undergo metamorphosis, can breathe through their skin.
What are amphibians?
Have spiny skin, move with tube feet, have a water vascular system, includes sea stars and sea urchins.
What are echinoderms?
This is the process of developing into a more complex form, like a tadpole turning into a frog.
What is metamorphosis?
This is what we call the habit of waking up and going to sleep at the same time every day.
What is a circadian rhythm?
These are animals that cannot control their internal body temperature, becoming the temperature of the air around them.
What are ectotherms?