Vertebrates
This type of animal has dry, scaly skin.
reptiles
What is classification?
Separating into groups by similarities or differences
Fish uses ____ to breathe underwater.
gills
The process of shedding the exoskeleton.
molting
When animals can use their coloring to blend in to their surroundings to keep them safe from predators.
camouflage
____starts its life in the water with gills and then develops lungs to live on land.
Amphibians
What class of organisms has a name that means "double life"?
amphibian
When animals travel to far away places to find food, like a duck flying south for winter.
migration
Jointed legs, claws, antennae, and pincers.
appendages
When an animal spends the summer in a deep sleep to protect it from the heat and dryness of the summer.
estivation
All vertebrates must have what 2 characteristics?
Backbone and skull (must also have internal skeleton).
How many classes of vertebrates are endothermic?
2 - mammals, birds
This is the type of body temperature birds have.
warm-blooded
Name all the arthropod groups.
insects, arachnids, centipedes/millipedes, crustaceans
A turtle's shell, a fish's gills - parts of an animal that help it to live in its environment and be able to survive are called___.
body covering
What are the 8 levels of classification?
domain Dear kingdom King Phylum Phillip class Can order Only family Find genus Green species Shoes
Which level of classification has the most organisms in it?
Kingdom
This is how mammals feed their babies.
with milk
How poriferans get their food.
filter feeding
camouflage is a type of this kind of defense
physical adaptation
Animals are autotrophs. They can not produce their own food.
False
What is binomial nomenclature?
Using 2 word names for each organism (Genus species)
Examples of mammals living in water.
whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals
Mollusks, worms, arthropods, and echinoderms ALL have this in common.
invertebrates/ no backbones
this defense is based on what an animal does
behavioral adaptation