Mammals
What is a mammal?
A mammal is a warm-blooded vertebrate animal that has hair or fur, gives birth to live young, and nourishes them with milk.
What is a bird?
A bird is a warm-blooded vertebrate animal that has feathers, wings, and lays hard-shelled eggs.
What is a Reptile?
A reptile is a cold-blooded vertebrate animal that has scaly skin and lays soft shelled eggs.
What is an amphibian?
An amphibian is a cold-blooded animal that typically starts its life in water as larva and then undergoes metamorphosis to live on land as an adult.
What is a fish?
A fish is a cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate animal that has gills for breathing and fins for swimming.
Name two characteristics of mammals.
Name two characteristics of mammals are that they have mammary glands that produce milk and they have specialized teeth for different types of diets.
Name two characteristics of birds.
They have beaks or bills for eating and they have hollow bones which make them light weight for flying.
Name two characteristics of reptiles.
They are ectothermic and they have dry scaly skin.
Name two characteristics of amphibians.
They have moist and permeable skin and they undergo a two-stage life cycle, water to land.
Name two characteristics of fish.
They have scales and they have a streamlined body shape for swimming.
What is the largest mammal on Earth?
The Blue Whale is the largest animal in the world.
What is the national bird of the United States?
The national bird of the US is the bald eagle.
What is the largest reptile in the world.
The saltwater crocodile.
What is the largest amphibian in the world?
The Chinese giant salamander.
What is the largest fish in the world?
The whale shark.
What is the smallest mammal on Earth?
The smallest mammal on Earth is the bumblebee bat.
What is the largest bird in the world?
The largest bird is an ostrich.
What is the smallest reptile in the world?
The Brookesia micra, a species of chameleon.
What is the smallest amphibian in the world?
The Paedophryne amanuensis, a species of frog.
What is the smallest fish in the world?
The Paedocypris progenetica, a species of cyprinid fish.
Equus asinus is the scientific name for what?
A donkey.
Anser Cygnoides is the scientific name for what?
The more common name is accepted.
A goose
Alligator mississippiensis is the scientific name for what.
An alligator
Bufo melanostictus is the scientific name for what.
A toad
Amphiprion ocellaris is the scientific name for what?
A clown fish.(Nemo)