4-Letter Abbreviations
What bird is abbreviated to RTHA?
What is a Red-Tailed Hawk?
The vertebrate class is based off what shared part of the body?
What is the backbone? (spine)
All birds share this kind of mouth:
What is a beak / bill ?
It is important that baby bird eggs are kept _____.
What is Warm?
Reptiles are ____-blooded
What is Cold?
What mammal is abbreviated to DIVI?
What is an Opossum?
Which vertebrate group do humans fall into?
What is the Mammal group?
What is one popular communicable disease that birds CANNOT carry?
What is rabies?
All baby birds hatch from ____-_______ eggs.
All reptiles use ____ to breathe air.
What are lungs?
What animal has the abbreviation ’TECA’?
What is a Turtle?
Vertebrate animals are categorized into what 5 main groups?
What are Mammals, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds?
What is the main difference in the feet of aquatic and flight birds?
What is webbing? (webbed feet)
Baby birds are classified into two categorizes to tell their approximate ages. The first stage is a Nestling, where baby birds are still featherless and have closed eyes. The second is a ________, where the bird has feathers, open eyes, and is beginning to fly.
What is a Fledgling?
Turtles don’t have teeth, instead they use their bony ____ to eat.
What are beaks?
What animal has the abbreviation ’GHOW’?
What is a Great Horned Owl?
Which one group of vertebrates shares the traits of being cold-blooded, having four legs once fully grown, and having soft, moist skin?
What are Amphibians?
What is the main characteristic / adapted trait in bird’s bones that help them fly?
What are hollow bones?
Mother birds pluck feathers from their chests to allow skin-to-skin contact with their babies. What is this area of skin called?
What is a brooding patch?
The term ‘tortoise’ refers to a turtle that lives where?
Where is on land?
What animal has the abbreviation ‘EASO’?
What is an Eastern Screech Owl?
Amphibians and Reptiles combined into one group are officially called this:
What are herptiles?
Which part of an Owl’s wing allows them to fly silently?
What is the comb? (Serrated tip of the primary feathers)
What is action is crucial in order to keep baby birds from getting stuck to the inside of their eggs?
What is rotating/moving the eggs?
The biggest difference between Alligators and Crocodiles is their habitats. Which of the two has the adapted gland that allows them to live in saltwater?
What are Crocodiles?