Classification
Will hatch from an egg when it is born. They are warm blooded and have feathers.
What is a bird?
This habitat is a saltwater habitat. It is filled with fish, sea mammals, and plants. It covers 75% of the Earth’s surface.
What is an ocean?
Animals that are hunted by other animals.
What are prey?
This is what we call animals that could become extinct in the future.
endangered
This is a home for a bird.
What is a nest?
The class of animal that begins its life in water with gills. It then grows lungs and lives its adult life on land.
What is an amphibian?
This habitat is a dry habitat. It gets very little rain. It is filled with plants called cacti and small land animals.
What is a desert?
Animals become inactive and sleep through the cold months.
Humans can open these places to take care of and help animals increase their population.
What are zoos?
What we call the place an animal lives that gives it everything it needs to survive.
What is a habitat?
This class of animal lives in water and breathes with gills for its whole life. Some have fins and most are covered with scales.
What are fish?
This habitat is a TYPE of grassland habitat found on the continent of Africa.
What is a savannah?
A defense that animals use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings.
What is camouflage?
Animals that lived long ago but are no longer alive today.
What is extinct?
Animals that have a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
This class of animal will be fed with milk from their mother’s body when they are young. They have lungs as well as hair or fur. They are warm blooded.
What is a mammal?
This habitat is a large piece of land covered with many trees and grass. It has large and small plants and animals.
What is a forest?
Animals travel from one place to another for reasons such as breeding or finding food when it’s cold.
What is migration?
Name one way that animals can become endangered.
Habitat Loss/Destruction
Pollution
Overhunting
Scientists classify vertebrates into 5 main groups, what do we call those groups?
This class of animal has dry, rough, scaly skin. It is cold blooded and has lungs to breathe air.
What is a reptile?
In this habitat trees grow very thick, and it rains almost every day. It is filled with tall trees, lots of rare plants and animals.
What is a rainforest?
A porcupine's body is covered in _____________ to protect it from predators.
What are quills?
Name one other category an animal could be in besides endangered.
Least Concern
Near Threatened
Vulnerable
Endangered
Critically Endangered
Extinct
These are underground tunnels that many animals live in.
What are burrows?