There are more _____________________ than ________________ in the world.
invertebrates, vertebrates
100
All invertebrates do not have a ____________________.
backbone
100
The place where plants and animals live is called a _________________________.
Habitat
200
What is type of vertebrate that breathes air and has fur/hair the protects them and keeps them warm.
Mammals
200
What group of vertebrates have lungs, wings, feathers and two legs?
Birds
200
What group of invertebrates have spiny body coverings, no head, but have a mouth? They move and capture food using suction cups called tube feet.
Sea stars and sea urchins
200
What is the largest group of invertebrates?
arthropods
200
The old remains of a plant or animal.
Fossils
300
What is the covering of the reptiles and what does it do?
dry, scaly skin. It protects them and prevents drying out.
300
What is special about fish that helps them move around?
Fins and gills (to help them breathe).
300
Snails, squid, octopus, clams, oysters, and scallops all belong to the same group called _________________.
Mollusks
300
What type of invertebrates have tube-shaped bodies, no legs, shells or eyes?
Worms
300
A species that is no longer foudn on Earth is a ___________________, but a species that has very few members is ____________________.
extinct species, endangered
400
Name the 5 different types (groups) of vertebrates.
mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles
400
Why it is good that snakes have dry, scaly skin?
So they can slither on the ground and move around quickly. Also, to protects them from drying out.
400
What type of invertebrate has tentacles? How do their tentacles help them?
Corals and Jellies, they act as their mouths and armlike parts, they grab food particles that float by and put it in their mouth.
400
What group of invertebrates do ants and butterflies belong to?
arthropods
400
How do scientists know that dinosaurs are extinct?
There are none still living, we can find fossils of their bones
500
What is specail about amphibians? (HINT! Where are they born? and then where do they live after that?)
Start in the water (lay eggs in the water) and start breathing with gills and have tails. Then they change and breathe with lungs and grow legs and live on land.
500
Describe how birds and mammals are alike.
Mammals and birds are both vertebratess. Both breathe with lungs.
500
What groups of invertebrates do ants, spiders and lobsers belong to? AND explain why!
Arthropods. They have joined legs and bodies made up of sections. They have hard outer coverings called exoskeletons.
500
What is the hard covering on the outside of an arthropod called?
exoskeleton
500
What can fossils tell a scientist about life on Earth long ago?
Fossils can tell about the kinds of animals that lives on Earth and what they looked like. Fossils can also tell what the animals ate and where they lived.