Bugs
These insects hop from plant to plant using their stong legs.
What are grasshoppers?
Fish and "baby" (or juvenile) amphibians breathe through these.
What are gills?
This reptile is well known for the armored shell which protects it.
What is a turtle?
This covers a bird's body and helps keep it warm while also helping some to fly.
What are feathers?
This type of animal has claws that can retract, or go back into their paws. They are also carnivores and superb hunters?
What are cats?
These insects are known for working together in a colony. They often build large mounds, or small hills of sand, in people's yards.
What are ants?
A baby, or juvenile, frog before it has grown legs is known as this.
What is a tadpole?
These ambush predators often live in swamps and wetlands where they float in the water looking like logs. When they spot their prey, though, they can move incredibly fast through the water.
What are alligators?
This bird is a common sight on Thanksgiving.
What is a turkey?
This is the largest living animal ever and is also the largest mammal ever.
What is the blue whale?
These creepy crawlies aren't insects, which have 6 legs. Instead, these arachnids have 8 legs.
What are spiders.
This type of fish is probably the greatest, or at least most well known, predator in the ocean.
What are sharks?
What are snakes?
When a bird flies somewhere else during part of the year.
What is migration?
Mammal mothers feed this to their young.
What is milk?
Butterflies are the adult, or grown up, forms of caterpillars. Before they become a butterfly, though, the caterpillar has to create this covering which it will stay inside of until it has completely changed.
What is a cocoon?
Similar to a frog, this type of amphibian tends to have rougher skin covered in bumps or "warts."
What is a toad?
These extinct reptiles would have been able to glide through the air.
What are pterosaurs (or pterodactyls)?
What are dinosaurs?
This mammal is a top predator related to dogs.
What are wolves?
The "baby" form of an insect is also called this.
What is a larva?
This type of amphibian looks like a lizard, but it isn't.
What is a salamander (or newt)?
This is South Carolina's state reptile.
What is the loggerhead sea turtle?
This is the largest bird that could still fly found in the world. The fossils for it were found in Charleston and can be seen at The Charleston Museum.
What is Pelagornis? (aka Pelagoris sandersi)
This is the largest living animal ever and is also the largest mammal ever.
What is the blue whale?