Vocabulary
An animal that has a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
Fish have backbones.
What is false?
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What is a picture and caption?
What is a noun?
List 3 examples of mammals.
What are elephants, humans, lions, giraffes, etc?
An animal that does not have a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
Fish are amphibians.
What is false?
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True or false: There are two proper nouns in the sentence below:
Allen STEM Magnet School is located in Hutchinson, KS.
What is true?
Allen STEM Magnet School and Hutchinson, KS
These are the two types of frogs we compared and contrasted.
What is a tree frog and a poison dart frog?
Something that makes a person, thing, or group different (or unique).
What is a characteristic?
An animal whose body temperature is constant with its environment is cold-blooded.
What is false?
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What is the title?
Identify the subject, predicate, and conjunction word in the following sentence:
Squirrels and dogs are furry animals.
are furry animals (predicate)
and (conjunction word)
List 2 examples of birds.
What is a cardinal, bluejay, eagle, goose?
To put things into groups.
What is classified?
The five groups of vertebrates are:
Mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, and amphibians.
What is true?
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What is the glossary?
I use the rule "1, 2 double I do" to add the suffix -ing to the word catch.
What is 1, 2, 3 no doubling for me.
Catch ends in CC (consonant, consonant).
List 2 characteristics of reptiles.
What is slimy/rough skin, vertebrate, cold-blooded, lays eggs, etc.?
This person is an expert in classifying animals based on their characteristics.
What is a taxonomist?
Cold-blooded is described as having a body temperature that changes with the environment's temperature.
What is true?
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What is a diagram?
I use the rule "1, 2 double I do" to add the suffix -ed to the word grab.
What is yes?
List 3 sequential (temporal) words used in writing.
What is first, next, then, second, last, finally?