Characteristics 1
Characteristics 2
Orders 1
Orders 2
Mystery!
100
This term tell us that mammals can regulate their own body temperature.
What is endothermic?
100
Since the majority of mammals spend their time on land, they have these organs which allow them to breathe
What are lungs?
100
Whales and Dolphins belong to this order
What is Cetacea?
100
A platypus belongs to this order
What is Monotremata?
100
Grinding is a function of this kind of tooth (Hint: think shape)
What is flat?
200
This is the number of pairs of limbs that most mammals possess..
What is 2?
200
This is the number of chambers in a mammals heart
What is 4?
200
Koalas belong to this order
What is Marsupialia?
200
A beaver belongs to this order
What is Rodentia?
200
Tearing is function of this kind of tooth (Hint: think name of tooth)
What are canines?
300
At some point during the life of a mammal, it's body may be covered in this
What is hair?
300
Female mammals are able to produce milk for their young because of this specialized gland..
What is the mammary gland?
300
Flesh eating mammals belong to this order
What is carnivora?
300
Elephants, trunk nosed, mammals belong to this order
What is Proboscidea?
300
Mammals' bodies are insulated by these two things
What is fat and hair?
400
This is a large sheet of muscle found just under the lungs and inside the rib cage of a mammal
What is the diaphragm?
400
Most mammals are this, which means to give birth to live young
What is viviparous?
400
Pouched mammals belong to this order
What is Marsupialia?
400
Insect eaters belong to this order
What is insectivora?
400
Mammals' bodies are cooled by this process
What is sweating?
500
Mammals have this many cervical vertebrae (bones in their neck)....
What is 7?
500
These two sections of the brain are highly developed in mammals and allows them to think and react quickly to things around them...
What are the cerebrum and cerebellum?
500
Mammals in this order have even toed hooves
What is Artiodactyla?
500
Mammals in this order have odd-toed hooves
What is Perissodactyla?
500
This specialized organ allow nutrients to be passed from the mother to the developing baby
What is the placenta?
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