The Animal Kingdom
Let's Group Them
Animal Characteristics
Text Features
A Little Bit of Everything
100

This is the word for an animal with a backbone.

What is a Vertebrate?

100

This group of animals is warm blooded and lays eggs.

What are birds?

100

Mammals all have this type of body covering.

What is fur or hair?

100

Help us see an example of what we are reading about.

What are photo and captions?

100

To put things into groups or catergories.

What is classify?

200

This word means maintaining a constant body temperature.

What is warm-blooded?
200

This group of animals begins life in water, then stays on land.

What are amphibians?

200

Fish use these to swim.

What are fins and tails?

200

Give is the page numbers of chapters in a book.

What are the table of contents?

200

All animals need to this to breathe.

What is oxygen?

300

Does not have a backbone.

What is an invertebrate?

300

These animals have thick, scaly skin.

What are reptiles?

300

These animals eat only meat.

What are carnivores?

300

Are important key words in a chapter.

What are bold print words?
300

Frogs' eggs hatch into these.

What are tadpoles?

400

Stays inactive for a long period of time.

What is hibernate?
400

These animals give birth to live babies and produce milk for them.

What are mammals?

400
Birds have this kind of body covering.

What are feathers?

400

Gives us definitions of words.

What is the glossary?

400

Some frogs and snakes can be ________.

poisonous
500

More active at night.

What is nocturnal?

500

These animals are aquatic, and have gills to breathe.

What are fish?
500

Animals who do not have the normal characteristics are called this.

What are pattern breakers?

500

This gives us an idea of what a chapter or paragraph will be about.

What is the heading?

500

True or false:  All birds are invertebrates.

What is False?

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