External Anatomy
What is the term for the long projecting hairs or bristles growing near the mouth of an animal?
What are whiskers?
What are 2 major purposes of the skeletal system?
What is to protect vital organs and give shape to body?
Brains, spinal cord, and nerves make up the what system?
What is nervous?
The most important nutrient is:
What is water?
What is the term for creation of new life by the fertilization of an egg?
What is conception?
What is the term for the topmost part of a bird's head?
What is the crown?
What are phalanges?
What are toes?
What does the muscular system do that the skeletal system does not?
What is produces heat?
What nutrient provides 2.25 times more energy than carbohydrates or proteins?
What are fats?
What is the part of a female reproductive tract that grows and develops embryos?
What is the uterus?
What is the term for the transparent layer permanently covering the eye that serves as eyelids for snakes?
What is the brille?
What is the hind upper leg bone?
What is the femur?
True or false: The veins carry blood away from the heart.
What is FALSE?
If an animal is exhibiting signs of anorexia, anemia, slow growth rate, and low milk production, it is deficient in what nutrient?
What are proteins?
True or False: Restlessness is a major sign that parturition is about to take place.
What is TRUE?
What is the term for the epidermal scales found on turtles?
What are scutes?
The front limbs (shoulders, legs, and feet) are a part of what group of bones?
Kidneys and the bladder are a part of what bodily system?
What is the excretory system?
Name two major ways that nutrients are utilized.
What are maintenance, lactation, reproduction, work & activity, and growth?
What animal has the shortest gestation period?
What is a hamster?
What is the term for the large joint halfway up the hindlimb?
What is a hock?
What bones make up the axial skeleton?
What are the skull, ribs, sternum, and spinal cord?
What are the three internal layers of the heart?
What are the epicardium, endocardium, and the myocardium?
What are concentrates made of?
What are high protein & high energy?
What must be provided for a dog or cat prior to parturition?
What is a birthing or whelping box?