How can you classify animals?
How are offspring like their parents?
What are the life cycles of some animals?
Vocabulary
Bonus Questions
100
What is the main characteristic scientists use to classify animals?
If they have a backbone or not.
100
What does inherited characteristic mean?
Received from a parent.
100
After birth, an animal begins to grow. It develops into an adult and then in can reproduce. Eventually, it dies. What is this called?
Life cycle.
100
What is a feature passed on to a living thing from it's parents?
Trait
100
What are the different cold bloodied vertebrates called? Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles.
Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles.
200
What is an animal without a backbone called?
Vertebrate
200
Is the color of your hair an inherited characteristic or an acquired characteristic?
Inherited.
200
What comes third in the lifecycle of a butterfly?
A pupa.
200
What is an animal that has a hard covering outside its body called?
An arthropod
200
What are the characteristics of a mammal?
Warm-blooded, have hair/fur, breath air, and feed their young with milk. What are the characteristics of a mammal?
300
What are animals without back bones called?
Invertebrates
300
Pierced ears are an example of acquired or inherited characteristic?
Acquired.
300
It has a worm-like body and must eat a lot to grow and store energy, what is it?
A larva
300
What is an animal with a backbone called?
Vertebrate
300
What does classifying animals? To put them into different groups.
To put them into different groups.
400
Can you name four animals from the textbook that are invertebrates?
Sea Jellies, Worms, Mollusks, and Arthropods
400
Baby birds open their mouths when a parent brings food, this is an example of inherited behavior called?
Instinct
400
Some animals change form as they develop, what is this called? Metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis.
400
A characteristic received from a parent is...
Inherited
400
As a tadpole grows it develops body parts to help it live on land. What body part grows? Legs.
Legs.
500
Another trait that helps scientists classify animals is the way they give birth. What two ways can animals be born?
1. Hatch from an egg 2. Live birth
500
Learning to tie your shoelace is what type of behavior?
Learned behavior.
500
During the lifecycle of a mammal, what is the first stage called?
Egg
500
What is a behavior an animal is born to do?
Instinct.
500
How is a young bobcat similar to an adult bobcat
They are the same color but different sizes.
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