Backbone or Bust
Name four characteristics of mammals
- Have fur / hair
- Warm-blooded
- Feed their young with milk
- Four-chambered heart
- 3 ear bones
- Breathe using lungs
A type of animal that eats meat
What is a carnivore?
This insulates a marine mammal's body from the cold
What is blubber?
An animal with a backbone
What is a vertebrate?
A group of whales living together
What is a pod?
These types of animals eat insects as their primary food
What are insectivores?
An animal with this type of blood has a body temperature that stays basically the same
What is warm-blooded?
An animal with this type of blood must find warmth or coolness from its environments; does not maintain a constant temperature
What is cold-blooded?
A group of lions
What is a pride?
An animal with a pouch outside its body
What is a marsupial?
This type of mammal lives near the water and its primary diet is fish
What is a crocodilian?
Similar to bone but softer and more bendable
What is cartilage?
This animal has a "double life"
What are amphibians?
Birds are classified as birds because they have these.
What are feathers?
What are baleen plates?
Baleen whales eat primarily these two things
What are plankton and krill?
This snake-like sea animal is classified as a bony fish
What is an eel?
This unique design helps birds fly
What are hollow skeletons?
Another name for hooves with even toes
What is cloven hoof?
Comes out at night
What is nocturnal?
These types of mammals can be easily identified by their unique skeletal structure
What are turtles?
Bats and dolphins use echolocation, or ________, to find their food
What is sonar?
This type of monkey lives mainly on the ground
What are old-world monkeys?
List and define the three main diets that animals are classified in.
What is an herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore?
This unique kind of mammal includes the platypus and the echidna
What is a monotreme?