Characteristics of Birds
Kinds of Birds
Mammal Characteristics
Placental Mammals
Monotremes and Marsupials
100
Birds share these characteristics with reptiles
What is scaley feet and laying eggs?
100
This is the number of bird species on earth.
What is around 10,000?
100
These are 4 different ways mammals keep warm.
What is hair, fur, blubber, and body energy.
100
This is the gestation period of an elephant.
What is 23 months?
100
These are the 3 species of monotremes.
What is long and short-nosed echidnas, and platypus?
200
This is the difference between preening and molting.
What is preening is oiling feathers to take care of them and molting is shedding the old and growing new ones?
200
This is how fast an ostrich can run and how tall they are.
What is 60 km/hr and up to 2.5 m?
200
Mammals range in size from less than the weight of a cracker to more than twenty school busses. True or false.
What is true?
200
The "toothless" mammals are this category.
What is anteaters, armadillos, and sloths?
200
This is the number of marsupial species alive today.
What is around 280?
300
This is how birds cool down.
What is by laying their feathers down and panting like a dog?
300
These are two types of birds of prey.
What is osprey, owl, etc?
300
This is the purpose of the diaphragm.
What is to help in respiration?
300
Hedgehogs fall into this category.
What is insectivores?
300
True or false. Marsupials all have a full pouch like the kangaroo.
What is false - some are partial?
400
This is the difference between precocial and altricial.
What is precocial can stand up soon after birth, whereas altricial are very weak at birth?
400
This is why water birds have long legs.
What is wading.
400
These is are the 7 common characteristics of mammals.
What is making milk, breathing air, endotherms, hair, specialized teeth, sexual reproduction, and large brains.
400
Seals, sea lions, and walruses are this type of carnivore.
What is a pinniped?
400
Immediately after marsupials are born, they do this.
What is crawling up to pouch and nursing?
500
These are the 7 flight characteristics of birds.
What is large eyes, air sacs, rapid heartbeat, wing shape, rigid skeleton, powerful flight muscles (large keel breastbone), and hollow bones.
500
These are the four categories of birds we studied.
What is flightless, water, perching, and birds of prey.
500
This is the number of mammal species on earth.
What is about 5000?
500
Camels fall into this category of mammals.
What is hoofed mammals?
500
This is the only marsupial native to North America.
What is the opossum?
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