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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?
100
The only winged, flying mammal.
What is a bat
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?
200
Fastest moving, biggest flightless bird.
What is a ostrich?
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?
300
How a developing fetus gets oxygen and nutrients from the mother.
What is a placenta?
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?
400
Charles Darwin observed these features on birds, leading to the theory of natural selection.
What are different, specialized beaks?
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?
500
4 adaptations that a bird has, allowing it to fly.
What are strong chest muscles, wings, hollow bones, air sacs, feathers?