Vital functions
TRUE OR FALSE: Animals are consumers
True
Herbivores eat...
Plants.
The five groups of vertebrates are...
Mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and amphibians.
TRUE OR FALSE: mammals are viviparous.
True.
Why are vertebrates and invertebrates different?
Because vertebrates have a backbone.
Three ways vertebrates breathe:
With lungs, through gills, through their skin.
TRUE OR FALSE: In viviparous animals, the babies develop outside the mother.
False.
Fish are oviparous or viviparous?
Oviparous.
How do reptiles breathe?
They breathe through lungs.
What covers the body of fish?
Scales.
TRUE OR FALSE: animals receive information through sense organs.
True.
Do animals reproduce sexually or asexually?
Sexually (they need a male and a female)
TRUE OR FALSE: mammals can live in the water.
True (the whale and the dolphin are mammals)
Birds have their body covered in...
Feathers.
TRUE OR FALSE: mammals can't fly (any mammal).
False (bats are mammals).
Consumers...
A. Produce their food
B Only eat animals C Only eat plants
D Eat living things (animals AND plants)
D Consumers eat living things.
In what part of the body do invertebrates have nerves?
Along the belly.
How do amphibians breathe?
They breathe through gills when they are babies and they breathe with their lungs and through their skin when they are adults.
Say if they are oviparous or viviparous:
1 Mammals
2 Birds
3 Fish
4 Reptiles
5 Amphibians
1 Viviparous
2 3 4 5 Oviparous
Is the jellyfish a fish?
No, it isn't (it hasn't got a backbone, so it is an invertebrate animal).
The nervous system in vertebrates needs two components to send signals to the brain.
Spinal cord and nerve cells.
TRUE OR FALSE: All invertebrates have exoskeleton.
False (only some invertebrates have exoskeleton).
Do all birds fly?
No, they don't (penguins don't fly, for example)
TRUE OR FALSE: reptiles have their body covered in hard scales.
True.
How do we call the process that changes the body of an amphibian?
Metamorphosis.