Animal Characteristics
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
Habitats
Animal Facts
100
Covered with hair or fur, warm blooded, breathes air through lungs, gives birth to live babies, feeds young from their mother's milk
What is a mammal?
100
an animal with a backbone
What is a vertebrate?
100
an animal without a backbone
What is an invertebrate?
100
a place where an animal lives
What is a habitat?
100
these types of bones make a bird lighter so it can fly
What are hollow bones?
200
Have dry, scaly, skin, cold blooded, breathe with lungs, lay eggs on dry land
What is a reptile?
200
help a fish to swim
What are fins?
200
Earthworms help do this to the soil
What is loosen the soil?
200
the color or pattern that helps an animal hide in its habitat
What is camouflage?
200
toucan, howler monkey, frog and tarantula live in this region
What is the tropical rain forest?
300
Have feathers and wings, warm blooded, breathe with lungs, lay eggs, have beaks and no teeth
What is a bird?
300
Platypus and echidna
What are mammals that lay eggs?
300
have a soft body and a hard shell
What are mollusks?
300
an endangered animal is close to becoming this
What is extinct?
300
Jellyfish, octopus, butterflies, snails and earthworms are examples of these types of animals
What are invertebrates?
400
Most are covered with scales and have fins to swim, cold blooded, breathe with gills, hatch from eggs
What is a fish?
400
penguin
What is a bird that can not fly?
400
large groups that ants live in
What are colonies?
400
animals that are active at night
What is nocturnal?
400
Spiders number of legs
What is eight?
500
Smooth, moist skin, cold blooded, breathe with gills until they develop lungs, live part of their life in water and part on land, bodies change form as they grow
What is an amphibian?
500
blue whale and kitti's hog nosed bat
What are the largest and the smallest mammals?
500
head, thorax, and abdomen
What are the three body parts of an insect?
500
harms animals and plants habitats
What is pollution?
500
salmon, tadpole, beaver live in this region
What is the freshwater region?
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