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Animals with
backbones
Animals without backbones
Categories of animals
Animal Characteristics
Vocabulary
100
The largest mammal living today
What is the blue whale?
100
This animal makes terrific looking reefs in tropical waters.
What is coral?
100
This animal has 6 legs and 3 body parts.
What is an insect?
100
This is how animals act.
What is a behavior?
100
The main bones that run along the middle of the back.
What is a backbone?
200
This is the only flying mammal.
What is the bat?
200
This animal has long tenticles that sting and a soft body.
What is a jellyfish?
200
This animal has dry and scaly skin. It is cold blooded.
What is a reptile?
200
A behavior that is inborn is called this.
What is an instinct?
200
To shed an animal's skin or hair is called this.
What is molt?
300
This animal is a reptile that does not lay eggs.
What is a garter snake?
300
This animal has an exoskeleton with claws. People usually eat the tail of this animal.
What is a lobster?
300
This animal can live part of its life on land and in water.
What is an amphibian?
300
This is how animals learn behaviors.
What is watch their parents or other animals?
300
The hard outer covering on some animals.
What is an exoskeleton?
400
There are two animals that can lay eggs and feed milk to their babies. Name one.
What is a spiny anteater or a duck billed platypus?
400
This animal lives in a colony and can be classified in groups of black, red, army, or carpenter.
What is the ant?
400
This animal is warm blooded and has hollow bones.
What is a bird?
400
Walking and talking are examples of this kind of behavior.
What is a learned behavior?
400
This is the organ used for breathing for amphibians and fish.
What is a gill?
500
This is the smallest living mammal.
What is a shrew?
500
This animal cannot move, filters water and food through holes, and lives in the ocean.
What is a sponge?
500
This animal has gills and always lives in water.
What is a fish?
500
This is a simple, automatic behavior.
What is a reflex?
500
An animal's body temperature that does not change with its environment is called this.
What is warm blooded?