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which of the 3 types am I?
100
An endothermic vertebrate that lays eggs and has feathers and a four-chambered heart.
What is a bird?
100
Faster moving air produces this kind of pressure than slower moving air.
What is less or lower pressure?
100
An endothermic vertebrate with a four-chambered heart and skin covered with fur or hair, that feeds its young with milk from the mother’s body.
What is a mammal?
100
What is a placental mammal?
200
A large feather that helps give shape to a bird’s body.
What is a contour feather?
200
The type of air pressure found on top of a birds wing.
What is low air pressure?
200
An organ in female mammals that produces milk for the mammal’s young.
What is a mammary gland?
200
What is a monotreme?
300
A short, fluffy feather that traps heat and keeps a bird warm.
What is a down feather?
300
The difference in pressure between the upper and lower surfaces of a bird’s wings that produces an upward force that causes the bird to rise.
What is lift?
300
A mammal whose young are born at an early stage of development, and which usually continue to develop in a pouch on their mother’s body.
What is a marsupial?
300
What are marsupials?
400
A muscular, thick-walled part of a bird’s stomach that squeezes and grinds partially digested food.
What is a gizzard?
400
Three types of bird flight.
What are flapping, soaring and gliding, and diving?
400
A large muscle located at the bottom of a mammal’s rib cage that functions in breathing.
What is a diaphragm?
400
What is a placental mammal?
500
An internal organ of many birds that stores food.
What is a crop?
500
The type of flight that requires a bird to expend the most energy.
What is flapping?
500
Mammals that lays eggs, such as the spiny anteaters or the platypus.
What are monotremes?
500
What is a monotreme?