Arthropods
This is an arthropod with 30 to 200 legs
What is a centipede?
Who cares for baby birds when they are hatched?
Who are the mother and father birds?
Fish use these to breath
What are gills?
A small mollusk with a spiral-shaped shell. They are famous for moving very slowly, and for leaving a trail of slime behind them.
What is a snail?
An invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses. They have a soft unsegmented body and live in aquatic or damp habitats, and most kinds have an external shell.
What is a Mollusk?
An organism that can make its own food
What is a Producer?
There are 25,000 different types of these in the world.
What are fish?
This arthropod undergoes a complete metamorphosis and turns into a beautiful flying insect.
What is a butterfly?
Birds have an ability to fly easier due to these?
What are hollow bones?
The gas-filled sack that helps the fish move up or down in the water.
What is a swim bladder?
A bivalve mollusk with rough irregular shells. Several kinds are eaten (especially raw) as a delicacy and may be farmed for food or pearls.
What is an Oyster?
A vertebrate with feathers, two legs, and wings.
What is a bird?
An animal that eats plants, other animals, or both
What is a Consumer?
An animal that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
This arthropod makes a chirping sound and can be heard clearly in fields and lawns.
What is a cricket?
The Ohio State bird
What is a cardinal?
How can you tell a fish's age?
What are the rings on the scales?
They have small razor-sharp teeth, called radulas. Most of them have two pairs of tentacles on their head used primarily for sense of smell, with a small eye at the base of each tentacle. Although a Mollusk, they have lost their univalve shells over time.
What is a Sea Slug?
An invertebrate that has an exoskeleton, a body divided into sections, and jointed legs.
What is an Arthropod?
A consumer that obtains food energy by breaking down the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
An animal that hunts other animals for food
What is a predator?
This arthropod has eight hairy legs, a cephalothorax, and an abdomen. The legs are attached to the cephalothorax, as are the eyes, the mouth, and the fangs. The spinnerets are at the very end of the abdomen, and are used for producing spider silk. People are usually afraid of them!
What is a tarantula?
This bird is large, with long legs and a long neck that protrudes from a round body. They are flightless however, they run very fast. They are bigger than any other bird in the world.
What is an Ostrich?
A scientist that studies fish.
What is an Ichthyologist?
Ocean creatures that are most famous for having eight arms and bulbous heads. Some other fun facts: They have three hearts and blue blood; they squirt ink to deter predators; and being boneless, they can squeeze into (or out of) tight spaces. They are quite intelligent and have been observed using tools.
What is an Octopus?
A vertebrate that lives in water and has fins, scales and gills.
What is a fish?
An animal that eats only plants
What is a herbivore?
Animals that other animals hunt for food
What is prey?
This arthropod lives in hot, dry regions, has eight legs, is easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always ending with a stinger.
What is a Scorpion?
These birds have a heavy body, a hunched-over stance, and their feathers often appear shaggy and looser than other birds. The are scavengers!
What is a Vulture?
There are two main types of fish, one is cartilage. What is the other type of fish?
What are bony fish?
An example of a bivalve mollusk that spends most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor or riverbeds. People love to eat them!
What is a clam?
A group of closely - related organisms that are similar and can reproduce.
What is species?
An animal that eats only meat
What is a Carnivore?
The transfer of food energy between organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?