Mammals
Name a mammal that lives in the ocean.
What is a dolphin, porpoise, or whale?
This food gives flamingoes their hot-pink color.
What is shrimp?
This body part is how fish are able to breathe.
What are the gills?
This insect can survive for weeks without its head.
What is a cockroach?
This is what it is called when a snake grows new skin and loses its old skin.
What is shedding?
This is when an animal uses its fur, scales, or feathers to blend in to its natural surroundings.
What is camouflage?
This is the world's tallest bird, and it can grow up to 9 feet tall.
What is the ostrich?
This is the largest fish in the sea.
What is the whale shark?
This is the insect with the shortest lifespan of all living creatures. It only lives for 24 hours.
What is the mayfly?
This reptile has the longest lifespan of any creature on earth with some living up to 180 years.
What is the tortoise?
This small creature is the only mammal that can fly.
What is a bat?
This is the word for a female peacock.
What is a peahen?
The number of hearts an octopus has.
What is three?
This is the body part that bugs have instead of a skeleton inside their body.
What is an exoskeleton?
This reptile cannot stick out its tongue.
What is a crocodile?
The color of a polar bear's skin.
What is black? (They have see-through fur that gives them the illusion of being white to blend in with the ice)
This is the only bird that can fly backwards.
This sea creature has no brain, heart, or bones.
What is a jellyfish?
This tiny bug never sleeps.
What is an ant?
This is the most venomous snake in North America.
What is the diamondback rattlesnake? (rattlesnake would also be correct)
This semiaquatic mammal has the world's thickest fur, with 1 million hairs per square inch.
What is the sea otter?
These smart birds can recognize faces and might even bring gifts to humans they trust.
What are crows?
This fish is the only living creature where the male of the species carries and gives birth to babies.
What is the seahorse?
This unsuspecting nuisance is surprisingly the world's deadliest insect AND animal because of the viruses and bacteria it carries in its bites.
What is the mosquito?
This reptile from the Nile has the world's strongest bite, which can apply 5000 pounds of pressure per inch.
What is the Nile crocodile? (Crocodile would also be correct)