Fish
All fish only lay eggs. They never have live births. True or false.
False - Some fish give birth to live young, like guppies, swordtails and most sharks
All mammals give birth to live young - true or false
false - most mammals give birth to live young, but some do not, like the duck-billed platypus
Penguins are amphibians - true or false
False - Penguins are birds
Turtles are amphibians - true or false
False - Turtles are reptiles
The animal kingdom includes worms, spiders, sea anemones and coral. True or false
True - The animal kingdom includes all of these
All ocean creatures are fish - true or false
False - Whales, dolphins, jellyfish and shellfish are sea creatures that are not fish
Camels humps store water - True or false
False - the hump stores fat that can break down and produce energy and water when there is a shortage of food.Water is stored in the bloodstream and sacs in the camel's stomach.
Birds have the most diversity of animal size of all of the vertebrate classes. True or false
False - mammals have the most diversity of animal size of all of the vertebrate classes.
The first stage in the life cycle is always the egg
False - the life cycle repeats
Insects, worms and mollusks don't have a backbone. True or false
Sea horses and Sea dragons are not fish - true or false
False - sea horses and sea dragons are fish
The body of a mammal has what on it?
Fur or hair
Owls are carnivorous birds that are called _________. This category would also include hawks, eagles, falcons and ospreys.
Raptors
Name the five classes of vertebrates
Mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, amphibians
Spiders are insects - True or false
False - Spiders are arachnids
What is the organ that Betta fish have that allows them to breathe outside of the water for a few moments?
Labyrinth organ
Are mammals warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
warm-blooded
When do owls hunt? What is this called?
At night - nocturnal
Where do most animals process information that they gather through their senses?
brain
Male animals are always bigger and stronger than females - true or false
This is false for some animals. It is true for humans, but false for queen ants, bees and other species.
Fish are invertebrates - true or false
False - fish have a spine
For animals such as the Red Panda, scientists agree on the family in which they are classified.
False, sometimes people disagree about which family an animals belongs to and you may find different sources that give different information.
The openings by which owls hear are on the same place on both sides of their head - true or false
false - one is higher and one is lower.
What do we call the transformation that a frog makes when it is changing from an underwater creature to a land creature?
Metamorphosis
An organism higher on the food chain is a predator to all organisms below it - true or false
False - it is only a predator to the organism directly below it.