Traits
Vocabulary
Extinction
Behavior
Take a Chance
100
An animal that breathes with lungs, has fur or hair, and feeds its young.
What is a mammal?
100
A body part that takes in oxygen from the water
What are gills?
100
A species that no longer exists
What is extinct?
100
This describes when an animal imitates the features of another animal to keep predators away.
What is mimicry?
100
The process that takes palce as a tadpole changes into a frog.
What is metamorphosis?
200
An animal that has 2 legs, usually flies, and hatches from eggs.
What is a bird?
200
The way animals get traits from their parents.
What is inherit?
200
The reason most species become extinct today
What is loss of habitat?
200
A behavior that an animal is born with.
What is instinct?
200
Colors, patterns, and shapes that help an animal blend in with its surroundings
What is camouflage?
300
An animal that can be born live or hatched from eggs, lives only in water, and breathes with gills.
What is a fish?
300
A group of related organisms
What is species?
300
A species that is in danger of becoming extinct.
What is endangered?
300
An animal's body temperature drops, its breathing and heartbeat slow down, and it sleeps.
What is hibernation?
300
An animal travels from one place to another and back again.
What is migration?
400
An animal that breathes with lungs, usually hatches from eggs, and has dry skin and scales.
What is a reptile?
400
A body feature that an animal inherits from its parents
What is trait?
400
A species that is on its way to becoming endangered or extinct.
What is threatened?
400
hibernating
What is an animal doing when it eats a lot of food, and then goes into a deep sleep for a while?
400
An animal that roamed the forest a long time ago and hunted mastodons.
What is a saber toothed cat?
500
An animal that hatches from eggs, breathes with gills and then lungs, and has smooth, moist skin.
What is an amphibian?
500
Evidence of an organism that lived long ago.
What is a fossil?
500
People overhunting or destroying an animals' habitat
What are ways people cause extinction?
500
A dog can be taught to roll over, a bird can learn to sing, a lion cub's mother teaches it how to hunt.
What are examples of learned behavior?
500
A bear on the theatened species list that people hunt as trophies because of their tremendous size
What is a grizzly bear?
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