Unique Physical Characteristics
These animals have hair and mammary glands
What are mammals?
This word refers to moving in a straight line
What is taxis?
What is a stimulus?
These organisms' internal temperature depend on the temperature outside
What are ectotherms?
What is Chordata?
These reptiles have a carapace on top of their bodies
What are turtles?
This stance is exemplified by the Komodo dragon
What is a sprawling stance?
This is an innate behavior that cannot be changed
What is an instinct?
This word, used primarily to refer to reptiles, refers to animals who give birth to live young
What is viviparous?
What were the first animals to have bones as we know them?
What are osteichthytes, or bony fish?
These reptiles have two holes in the sides of their head and live in New Zealand. What are they?
What are Tuataras?
Wing muscles in birds are attached to the middle of their body, known by this Latin word.
What is the sternum?
This theory states that natural selection should favor behaviors that get animals the most amount of food for the amount of effort it takes to get it.
What is optimal foraging?
These creatures have hollow bones and a lightweight, strong body.
What are birds?
This is a fan shaped array of bones found in fish.
This is the primary reproductive and excretory opening in many lower- (and sometimes higher-level) vertebrates?
What is a cloaca?
This adaptation in an amphibian's bone structure allows its body to support greater weight and move on land.
What are fused bones?
What is inclusive fitness?
A duck billed platypus is an example of this, a mammal that lays eggs.
What is a monotreme
Frogs do not live in these places
Where are deserts and the arctic?
This storage area holds waste inside an amniotic egg.
What is the allantois?
These are the only mammals that can fly
What are bats?
This ability is the ability to solve a problem not using actual trial and error but using just...
What is insight?
This type of circulatory system carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
What is systemic?
This is a substance that is waterproof and makes up skin and hair
What is keratin?