Horse Classification
Terms
Eohippus
Mesohippus
Equidae
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The kingdom of horses

What is Animalia

100

The simple definition of evolution

What is change and development

100

The era of Eohippus

What is the Early Eocene Era


100

The era of Mesohippus

What is the Oligocene Era

100

The number of teeth in Family Equidae

What is 40-42

200

Equus caballus

What is the genus and species of the modern horse

200

The characteristics of the order perissodactyla

What are non-ruminant, odd-toed ungulated (hooved) mammals

200

How long ago Eohippus lived.

What is 55 million years ago

200

How long ago Mesohippus lived

What is 37-32 million years ago

200

Three members of Family Equidae

What are zebras, horses and donkeys

300

The Class of the horse

What is Mammalia

300
Four mechanisms which determine the preservation or extinction of a species.

What are natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and migration

300

The number of toes on the front feet and back feet of Eohippus

What is 4 in front and 3 in the back

300

How many toes did mesohippus have (front and back)

What is 3 on front and 3 on back
300

The remnants of the 2nd and 4th toes

What are splint bones

400

The phylum and subphylum of the horse

What is Chordata and Vertebrate

400

A flexible rod-shaped chord composed of cartilage-like materials

What is a notochord
400

Two other names for Eohippus

What are DAWN HORSE and HYRACOTHERIUM

400
The height of mesohippus

What is 24 inches tall

400

Where Equus asinus was domesticated

What is North Africa

500

The order of classifications

What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

500

The 5 characteristics of mammals

What are 1) Hair/fur

2) Live Birth

3) Warm-blooded

4) Vertebrates

5) Mothers secrete milk to feed babies

500
Four characteristics of Eohippus
What are arched back, short legs, short neck and a long tail
500

The diet of Mesohippus

What is twigs and fruit

500

The height of the average Equus

What is 17 hands

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