What Am I?
Animals that do not have a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
Cold-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates with scales.
What are reptiles?
The three classes of mammals.
What are placentals, marsupials, and monotremes?
Warm-blooded vertebrates with two eyes, a beak, and feathers.
What are birds?
My phylum's name means "stinging creature"?
What are cnidarians?
Vertebrates that have hair or fur, give birth to their young, and are warm-blooded.
What are mammals?
This group of animals can have a set of lungs and a set of gills.
What are amphibians?
Three examples of echinoderms.
What are sea stars (starfish), sea cucumbers, and sea urchins?
Three examples of bony fish.
What are goldfish, trout, and bass? (Answers will vary)
This group of animals means "muscular foot".
What are gastropods?
Arthropods with three body sections, six jointed legs, and often has one or two pairs of wings.
What are insects?
Mostly aquatic creatures with exoskeletons, two antennae, and a pair of often modified appendages on each body segment.
What are crustaceans?
Invertebrates that have soft, unsegmented bodies, and live on land and sea.
What are mollusks?
Three classes of mollusk with an example of species from each class.
What are gastropods, cephalopods, and bivalves?
Answers will vary (gastropods --> snails, slugs)(cephalopods --> octopus, cuttlefish, squid) (bivalves --> clams, mussels, scallops)
Three classes of fish with an example of species from each class.
What are jawless, bony, and cartilaginous fish?
Answers will vary (jawless fish --> lamprey, agnathan) (bony fish --> goldfish, trout, bass) (cartilage fish --> great white shark, manta ray)
This animal is marine dwelling and often has a round mouth. Its body is made of cartilage.
What is a jawless fish?
Technically invertebrates are the only animals to truly do this because they do not have skin.
What is molting?
Most likely as many as 2,000,000 different species, if not more.
What are arthropods?
First animals to be able to live on land from birth to death without returning to water to reproduce.
What are reptiles?
These two classes of animal are always warm-blooded.
What are birds and mammals?
You are gardening in your backyard and tending to your compost pile when you discover an earthworm.
What is an annelid (segmented worm)?
The substance that is contained in veins and vessels and transported throughout the body in a closed circulatory system.
What is blood?
I have eight jointed appendages, and exoskeleton, and wings.
What does not exist or is yet to be discovered?
This species can grow to enormous lengths and live hidden inside the stomach for years and years.
What is a tapeworm?
The largest bony fish to exist today.
What is a Mola mola or Ocean Sunfish?