Vocabulary
Fish and Birds
Amphibians and Reptiles
Mammals
Toss Up
100
This is the internal support system of vertebrates
What is the endoskeleton?
100
This fish body part removes oxygen from water and exchanges it for carbon dioxide
What are gills?
100
These were the first ones to live on land
What are amphibians?
100
Mammals produce this to feed its young
What is milk?
100
This fish body part allows the fish to sense when objects are nearby
What is the lateral line?
200
These are the overlapping bony structures on a fish
What are scales?
200
This is a way for birds to stay cool
What are fluff their feathers out?
200
This is where reptiles lay their eggs
What is on land?
200
These are a type of mammal hair that sense when objects are near
What are whiskers?
200
This is what an amphibians skin looks/feels like
What is smooth and moist?
300
These vertebrates get warmth from the sun
What are ectotherms?
300
These are the three groups of fish
What are jawless, cartilaginous, and bony?
300
A tadpole uses these to get oxygen
What are gills?
300
This is the length of time an embryo is developing
What is gestation?
300
This species contains the most vertebrates
What are fish?
400
This is the process of keeping eggs warm
What is incubation?
400
In birds, these are connected to the lungs and help a bird fly
What air sacs?
400
Amphibian and reptile sensory organs are adatped for this type of environment
What is living on land?
400
This is a place in the body where energy can be stored
What is body fat?
400
These are the benefits of flying
What is getting food from places where water and land mammals can't, escaping danger, searching large areas for food, and migration?
500
This is the special organ that transports nutrients, water, and oxygen to a developing embryo
What is the placenta?
500
These are the four adaptations birds have for flight
What are endoskeletons, wings and feathers, specialized respiratory system, and hollow bones?
500
This is another name for tadpole
What are larva?
500
Besides producing milk, these are two other common characterisitics of mammals
What are specialized teeth and hair at some point in their lives?
500
Besides sensory organs and eggs, these are other common characteristics of reptiles
What are two pairs of legs, tough dry skin covered by scales, breathe with lungs?
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