Mammals
Mammals are _________ blooded.
What is warm-blooded?
True or False- All birds can fly.
What is False? (Not all birds can fly. Ostriches live on land and have developed the ability to run fast. Penguins live in the ocean and are great swimmers)
True or False- Fish do not have backbones.
What is False? (Fish are vertebrates. All vertebrates have backbones)
True or False- Reptiles only live in water.
What is False? (Reptiles live in water or on land. This group includes alligators,snakes, lizards, and turtles)
Amphibians have smooth _________ skin.
What is moist? (Frogs, toads and salamanders are all amphibians. Think of the word, MOIST, when you think of these mammals)
All mammals have _________ on their bodies at some time in their lives.
What is Hair?(Some mammals, like bears, are covered with thick hair or fur. Other mammals, such as elephants, only have a little body hair)
Like mammals, birds are ________ blooded.
What is warm?
True or False- Fish are the only group of vertebrates that live in water their whole lives.
What is True? (Some fish live in fresh water. Other fish live in salt water. Some, like salmon, live in fresh and salt water at different times in their lives)
Reptiles have ____ skin that has scales.
What is dry?
Amphibians are ___________ blooded.
What is cold?
Mammals and other animals with backbones are called _______.
What are Vertebrates?
True or False- Birds have wings instead of front legs.
What is True? (Birds are made to fly)
Most fish have ________ covering their bodies.
What are scales? (scales are small, thin, hard plates that partly cover each other)
Reptiles are ______ blooded.
What is cold? (If reptiles are too cold, they sit in the sun to warm up. If they are too warm, they get in the shade or water to cool off)
True or False- Many baby amphibians are born in water.
What is True? (Most amphibians lay eggs that have a jellylike covering. The eggs are usually laid in water so they will not dry out)
True or False. Almost all mammals are born live instead of hatching from eggs that are laid.
What is true?
Most birds have lightweight, _______ bones.
What is Hollow?
Fish breathe with ________ instead of lungs.
What are gills? (gills are breathing organs that take oxygen from water. Blood that passes through the gills releases carbon dioxide gas into water)
True or False- All Reptiles lay eggs.
What is False? (Most reptiles lay eggs, but their eggs are not as hard as birds eggs. Some reptiles, including rattlesnakes, give birth to live babies. The babies develop inside the eggs, but the shells break down before birth)
Baby amphibians are called _______________.
What are tadpoles? (tadpoles use fins and tails to move through the water. Most amphibians' bodies will change shape as they grow. They will lose their tales and grow legs as they become adult amphibians and walk on land.)
Mammals breathe with their _________.
What are Lungs? (Lungs are a pair of breathing organs in the chest. Breathing in takes in an important gas called oxygen from the outside air. Breathing out lets out a waste gas called carbon dioxide)
Birds breathe with their ___________.
What are Lungs? (Birds are mammals and the common characteristic of mammals is that they have lungs)
True or False- All fish lay eggs.
What is False? (Some fish with backbones made of cartilage give birth to live young)
Reptiles breathe with their __________.
What are lungs?
Most amphibians breathe through their gills when they are tadpoles. As they get older they lose their gills and develop __________.
What are lungs? (Some amphibians also breathe through their skin)