Animals #1
Which type of animal has hair or fur?
Mammal
Which type of animal has wings?
Bird
Name one simple machine found on a bicycle.
Answers will vary.
Name 3 of the 6 simple machines.
pulley, lever, inclined plane, wedge, screw, wheel and axle
What are the three states of matter?
Solid, liquid, gas
What do you call animals that have no backbone?
Invertebrates
Name two types of animals that are cold-blooded.
Reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects
An axe is an example of what type of simple machine?
What two parts do you need in order to make a pulley?
A rope and a grooved wheel
Which will absorb water better, plastic or cloth?
Cloth
What are 3 characteristics of mammals?
Answers will vary. They are warm-blooded, they have hair or fur, they feed milk to their babies, they have a backbone, and they are born alive.
What do insects have that covers the outside of their body because they do not have a backbone?
A screwdriver is not a "screw," but rather this type of simple machine.
Wheel and axle
If you take two of these simple machines and put them together, you will create a wedge.
Inclined planes
Plastic
What is the name we give to the special features that help animals to survive, such as a duck's webbed feet?
Adaptations
What are the names of the 3 body parts of an insect?
Head, thorax, abdomen
If you wind this type of simple machine, you will get a screw.
Inclined plane
The balancing point on a lever is called this.
What does it mean if we say that a solid is "buoyant?"
It means that the solid can float.
Even though amphibians are cold blooded, why are they not considered reptiles?
Answers will vary
Even though birds are warm-blooded, why are they not considered mammals?
Answers will vary.
What do you call the "thing" that you are trying to lift at the end of a lever?
Load
What do you call the force applied in a lever?
Effort
Name 3 properties of liquids.
Liquids flow. Liquids can be poured. Liquids take the shape of the container they are in.