A warm-blooded veretbrate that has hair, gives birth, and feeds its baby milk.
What is a mammal?
100
The stages of an animal's growth and change: birth, growth, reproduction, death.
What is life cycle?
100
The system that moves blood through the body.
What is the circulatory system?
200
An animal without a backbone.
What is an inveretebrate?
200
The group of invertebrates that uses poisonous stingers on tentacles to capture prey and for protection.
What is cnidarian?
200
A vertebrate that has feathers, a beak, clawed or webbed feet, is warm-blooded, and lays eggs.
What is a bird?
200
This is how long an animal can be expected to live (the average life.)
What is life span?
200
The brain is part of this system that controls all other body systems.
What is the nervous system?
300
Animals that CANNOT control their body temperature.
What is cold-blooded?
300
Soft-bodied inveretebrates, for example: snails, slugs, clams, octopus, squid...
What is a mollusk?
300
A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives on land and has dry waterproof scaled skin.
What is a reptile?
300
This is when offspring (babies) inherit traits (characteristics) from their parents.
What is heredity?
300
The system that breaks down food for energy.
What is the digestive system?
400
Animals that have a CONSTANT body temperature.
What is warm-blooded?
400
Echinoderms, like the starfish, sand dollar, and sea urchin, have this INTERNAL supporting structure.
What is an ENDOSKELETON?
400
A cold-blooded vertebrate that spends part of its life in the water and part on land.
What is an amphibian?
400
This is the correct order of an animal's complete metamorphosis, like the butterfly.
What is egg, larva, pupa, adult?
400
The system that brings oxygen to the blood and removes wastes, like carbon dioxide gas, from the blood.
What is the respiratory system?
500
Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fish all ___________.
Cold blooded
500
The largest group of invertebrates, the arthropds, have this hard skeleton on the OUTSIDE of their bodies.
What is an EXOSKELETON?
500
A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives in water and has gills for breathing. Name the 3 types.
What is a fish? Cartilaginous, jawless, and bony fish.
500
Inherited behavior is a set of actions that a living thing is born with. Explain the difference between INSTINCT and LEARNED BEHAVIOR.
What is INSTINCT - a way of acting that an animal does not have to learn (automatic) (Building a nest). LEARNED BEHAVIOR - is when an animal changes its behavior through experience (Riding a bicycle).
500
The organ system that removes waste, like urine, from the body.