Mammals
Mammals have this for outer covering.
What is fur or hair?
Fish breathe using THIS type of body structure.
What are gills?
Snakes and lizards are in THIS class of vertebrates.
What is reptile?
The invertebrate phylum of arthropods contains several classes including this class made up of 6-legged organisms.
What is the insect class?
This is the "royal" grouping of classification we look at in elementary science, and can include the animal one and the plant one.
What is kingdom?
Mammals are called this to show that they can maintain their own body temperature.
What is warm-blooded?
Birds breathe using THESE.
What are lungs?
THIS class lays leathery eggs on land.
What is reptile?
The arachnids can be "counted" on for this leggy feature.
What is 8-legs?
THIS classification category, just below Kingdom, for vertebrates is called Chordata.
[FAMILY, ORDER, or PHYLUM]
What is phylum?
Mammals have these kind of offspring and feed them milk.
What are live births, or not hatched from eggs?
Fish bodies are covered in these.
What are scales?
Toads and frogs that lay soft eggs in the water and the babies will later grow lungs and legs, belong to this class of vertebrate.
What are amphibians?
Crustaceans like shrimp and lobster have this many legs, plus many of them taste good dipped in butter.
What is 10?
THIS is the most specific classification grouping, containing only 1 organism.
What is species?
The platypus is a mammal that has THIS non-mammal characteristic more commonly found in birds.
What is laying and hatching eggs?
Birds' beaks are specific to each bird type and have evolved to do THIS specific activity.
What is to eat or prepare food?
Reptiles and amphibians are both called THIS because they cannot maintain their own body temperature.
What is cold-blooded?
Cnidarian invertebrates like jellyfish have soft bodies and this protective body part.
What are stingers, or stinging tentacles?
Most animals have 2 names; they are called by their species as well as the level right above species called THIS.
What is genus?
This marine animal is the largest mammal on Earth.
What is the Blue Whale? (Weighs in at nearly half a million pounds and up to 100 feet long!)
Birds and fish both do this to have their offspring.
What is laying eggs?
This class nearly always goes through some type of metamorphosis (change) and the baby does not usually look like its adult form.
What is amphibian?
Mollusks include this type of organism that carries his house with him, and moves using his muscular foot.
What is a snail?
Relatively speaking, THIS classification category is just one step above Genus.
What is family?