Animal Groups
Animal Needs
Vocabulary
Adaptations for Food & Protection
Teacher's Pick
100
This group of animals has a backbone.
What is a vertebrate.
100
This animal fills their need by eating plants and animals.
What is food?
100
Sharp teeth or webbed feet help an animal survive in its environment.
What are adaptations?
100
This animal uses this adaptation to help it tear apart and eat meat.
What is sharp teeth?
100
A behavior an animal is born able to do.
What is an instinct?
200
This group of animals does not have a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
200
This animal fills its need by breathing air through lungs or breathing through gills.
What is oxygen?
200
Traits that are passed on from parent to offspring.
What is inherited?
200
This animal uses this adaptation to grind tough plant material side to side.
What are flat teeth?
200
Name an example of vertebrate.
What is ?
300
This group of vertebrates gets milk from its mother, is warm blooded and breathes air through its lungs.
What is a mammal?
300
This animals fills its need by drinking from a pond, stream or the ocean.
What is water?
300
Body features passed on by an animal to its offspring.
What are traits?
300
This adaptation helps an animal blend into their surroundings.
What is camouflage?
300
Name an example of an invertebrate.
What is ?
400
This group of animals spend part of their lives in water and part on land. They get oxygen through gills and as they grow they develop lungs.
What is an amphibian?
400
This animals fills its need by building a home or using its shell for protection.
What is shelter?
400
Animals slow down their bodies and sleep for a long time.
What is hibernate?
400
Many animals use body parts such as shells, teeth, claws, hooves, and bills to protect themselves.
What is armor?
400
Which group of animals is larger vertebrates or invertebrates?
What is invertebrates?
500
This group of animals mostly have dry, scaly skin and breathe air through lungs.
What is a reptile?
500
Name all four animal needs.
What is food, water, oxygen and shelter?
500
Animals fly south for the winter.
What is migrate?
500
A king snake uses this adaptation for protection by looking similar to the deadly coral snake.
What is mimicry?
500
The largest group of invertebrates are?
What are insects?
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