Classifying animals
Animal Features
Fish
Reptiles/Amphibians
Birds/Mammals
100
Features or qualities that make one group different from another.
What is characteristics?
100
Having a body temperature that changes with the temperature of the environment.
What is cold-blooded?
100
Having to do with water.
What is aquatic?
100
A group of animals that are cold-blooded, live in water and on land, and lay eggs - most of which have moist skin.
What is amphibians?
100
A structure formed and used by animals for laying and hatching eggs.
What is a nest?
200
To sort or group animals or things according to shared characteristics.
What is classify?
200
Being able to control internal body temperature by making heat within the body and having ways to cool the body down when needed.
What is warm-blooded?
200
The organs that fish use to breathe the oxygen in water.
What is gills?
200
To drop, cast off, or separate from ( example snakes)
What is shed?
200
To move smoothly and continuously.
What is glide?
300
Animals that do not have a backbone.
What is invertebrates.
300
Not changing very much and staying steady and even.
What is constant?
300
The breathing organs of vertebrates that breathe oxygen.
What is lungs?
300
This word is Latin for "living two lives."
What is amphibian?
300
Lightweight coverings that mesh together as wings flap downward, parting again to let air through as wings sweep upward.
What are feathers?
400
One of the main groups into which living things are classified.
What is kingdom?
400
Each of the bones that make up the backbone (spine) of a vertebrate animal.
What is vertebra?
400
The many, small hard plates that cover the skin of most types of fish.
What is scales?
400
Have hard, thick, scaled skin;lay eggs in a nest on land, breathe through lungs.
What is a reptile?
400
The main organ mammals use to breathe.
What are lungs?
500
The science of grouping organisms (living things) based on shared characteristics.
What is taxonomy?
500
To slide smoothly, often with a slight zigzag pattern.
What is slither?
500
Name three examples of fish.
What are ___________, ___________, and _________.
500
Name three examples of reptiles.
What are ________, ________, and _________.
500
Warm-blooded vertebrates that give birth to live young, have milk-making glands, and fur on their bodies.
What are mammals?
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