Marine Life
These marine invertebrates have a hard exoskeleton and jointed legs.
What are crustaceans?
In order to be considered a bird, an animal must have this characteristic.
What is be covered in feathers? (also have hollow bones, two wings, a beat, four toes, and legs and feat covered in scales)
These are the three parts of an insect.
What are the head, thorax, and abdomen?
These creatures have a three stage metamorphic life cycle.
What are amphibians?
This term describes how mammals regulate their own body temperature.
What is warm blooded or endothermic?
Fish use these body parts to perform many jobs while swimming.
What are fins?
This part of a feather includes the quill and the rachis.
What is the shaft?
These terms describe the two kinds of eyes insects have.
What are simple and complex eyes?
Snakes and turtles are examples of this group.
What are reptiles?
Mammals get their names from this practice.
What is creating milk to feed their young (Mammary glands)?
This body part allows marine invertebrates and fish to breathe underwater.
What are gills?
Some birds complete this process in order to follow their food supply.
What is migration?
This growth cycle includes larva, pupa, and adult.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
This term describes animals who relay on the environment to control their body temperature.
What is cold blooded or ectotherms?
This is one way mammals stay clean.
What is water baths, mud/dust baths, lick themselves, or communal grooming?
Jellyfish and cephalopods both use this as a method of movement.
What is jet propulsion?
These are two kinds of bird nests.
What are cup-shaped in trees, hollows in the ground, built up mounds of sand, grassy nests in reeds, hanging nests, or holes in trees.
This group of creepy crawlies are not insects, easily decerned by their eight legs and two body sections.
What are arachnids?
This feature of the reptile reproductive system are soft and leathery.
What are reptile eggs?
This pattern or coloring allows an animal to blend in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
These marine invertebrates use one tongue like foot to move across the sea floor.
What are mollusks? (particularly clams, mussels, and oysters.)
Birds use this process to care for their feathers.
What is preening?
While both creatures have many legs, this feature differentiates centipedes and millipedes.
What is two sets of legs per section vs one set of legs, venomous vs poisonous, or habitat.
This unique amphibians stay in their larval phase for life and can only be found in two small lakes outside of Mexico City.
What are axolotls?
These two unique mammal groups are primarily (or only) found in Australia.
What are marsupials and monotremes?