Changes overtime
Animal needs
Categories of vertebrates
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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What is the first stage of every life cycle?
Every vertebrate starts as an egg.
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What are the four needs all animals need?
All vertebrates need oxygen, water, food and shelter.
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What is a mammal?
It is an animal that has 1.fur 2.warm blood 3.gives birth to live young 4.takes care of its young 5.Breathes with lungs
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What are scales?
A small, thin, flat plate that helps protect an animal.
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What is a gill?
A body part that takes in oxygen from the water.
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What vertebrate goes through a complete metamorphosis?
Some amphibians.
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What is oxygen and what are the two ways vertebrates can get it?
Oxygen is a gas either in air or water. Animals can get oxygen from breathing with lungs or through gills.
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What is a bird?
Birds are an animal that 1. have feathers 2.two legs 3.wings 4.warm blooded and 5.lays eggs
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What is the change that happens to an animal during its life called?
What is a life cycle?
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What are a series of changes in appearance that some organisms go through?
Metamorphosis
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What invertebrate goes through an imcomplete metamorphosis? How many stages are there?
Grasshoppers go through incomplete metamorphosis and there are three stages.
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1)What are the three ways water can leave your body? 2)What are the two ways you can get it back?
1)Water can leave your body through breathing, sweat or urine. 2) You can drink water or get it from your food.
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What is a reptile?
It is an animal that has 1.dry scales for skin 2.lays eggs 3. is cold blooded 4. and breathes with lungs
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What's the stage of complete metamorphosis after an organism is wrapped in a cocoon?
Pupa
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What is the stage of complete metamorphosis after an organism hatches from an egg?
Larva
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How does a frog change over time?
Frogs have four stages in their life cycle. 1.They start as eggs in water. 2.The grow into tadpoles with gills and tails. 3.They change into tadpoles with limbs and start to grow lungs. 4.They become adult frogs and move onto land with four legs, lungs, no tails and no more gills.
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1)Why do animals need food? 2) Name three special body parts that help some animals get food.
1)Animals need food to live and grow. 2)Examples: Giraffe's long neck, a pelican's large bill or a lion's sharp teeth and claws...
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What is an amphibian?
An amphibian is an animal that has 1. a life that begins in water 2. They move onto land as adults 3. They have moist skin 4. They are cold-blooded
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What is a trait?
A special feature or characteristic about the appearance of a person or thing
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What is Complete metamorphosis?
This is a kind of metamorphosis where the insect changes the way it looks during its life cycle. There are four stages to this metamorphosis; egg, larva, pupa and adult
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What category is a whale? What life cycle does it go through? Explain the stages of its life cycle.
1. Whales are mammals because they have hair and lungs. 2. They go through an animal lifecycle. 3. They're born as live young, and the babies look like smaller, cuter versions of the adults.
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What need do mammals, birds, reptiles and adult amphibians all get the same way?
They all breathe oxygen with lungs.
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What is a fish?
A fish is an animal that 1. lives its entire life in water. 2. has gills 3. scales 4. and is cold blooded
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What is heredity? Provide an exampleof something that can be inherited.
Heredity is traits that are given to you by your parents. examples: eye color, height, hair color...
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What are the categories of vertebrates that we've studied.
We studied fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds.
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