What'd you call me? (classification)
Animal Characteristics
What's for supper?
Vocabulary
Hodgepodge
100

This is the correct classification of a whale

What is mammal?

100

This group of animals have 3 body segments and 6 legs

What are insects? 

100

This group of animals only eat meat

What are carnivores? 

100

The term for animals with a backbone

What is a vertebrate? 

100

The name for animals that are active at night

What is nocturnal? 

200

This classification is unique because of their feathers

What are birds?

200

These animals have many pairs of legs and many body segments.

What are centipedes/millipedes? 

200

This group of animals only eat plants

What are herbivores? 

200

The term for organisms that can live independent of other organisms.

What is free living? 

200

These organisms live on or in another organism to get nourishment.

What is a parasite?

300

Worms with bilateral symmetry

What are flatworms?

300

Instead of bones, some fish have skeletons made out of this

What is cartilage? 

300

This group of animals only eat insects

What are insectivores? 

300

The name for tiny stinging organelles

What are nematocysts?

300

Birds and mammals are considered ______ -blooded

What is warm?

400

Crabs and shrimp are examples of these

What are crustaceans?

400

This group of animals is cold-blooded and most lay eggs on land

What are reptiles?

400

This group of animals eat both plants and animals

What are omnivores?

400

The name for animals that eat organisms that float in the water

What are filter feeders? 

400

Reptiles are considered _________ - blooded.

What is cold?

500

In a group of sponges, coral, jelly fish, and sea anemones, this one does not belong.

What are sponges?

500
Characteristics unique to this group is a pouch on the outside of the body to carry their developing babies.

What are marsupials? 

500

Carnivorous marine mammals that can live in the ocean and on land

What are pinnipeds?

500

A symmetry of body parts that repeat around a central part

What is radial symmetry?

500

The stages egg, larva, pupa, and adult describe this type of metamorphosis

What is complete?