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What do you call an animal that has feathers?
What is a BIRD?
Some animals breathe with __________. They take in oxygen from the water.
What are GILLS?
True or False? An organism which is gone forever is called EXTINCT.
What is TRUE?
What do you call a species in danger of going extinct?
What is ENDANGERED?
What do mammals have covering their bodies?
What is HAIR or FUR?
What do you call evidence that a plant or animal lived long ago?
What are FOSSILS?
An ___________ is a behavior an animal knows how to do automatically.
What is an INSTINCT?
True or False? Going into a deep sleep during winter months is called HUNKERING.
What is FALSE?
It is called HIBERNATING.
True or False? When an organism goes extinct it will cause all other creatures in that ecosystem to go extinct as well.
What is FALSE?
It will disrupt the ecosystem, but not cause all other life to go extinct.
What do fish have covering their bodies?
What are SCALES?
What do you call the scientific name of an organism?
What is a SPECIES?
An animal will ________, or receive, features from it's parents.
What is INHERIT?
True or False? An example of METAMORPHOSIS is when a tadpole turns into a frog.
What is TRUE?
An organism whose numbers are going down is what?
What is THREATENED?
How are amphibians and reptiles similar?
What is they both hatch from eggs?
What do you call a behavior an animal must be taught, or observe?
What is LEARNED BEHAVIOR?
A ______ is a body feature with which an animal is born.
What is a TRAIT?
True or False? A reptile is born in the water and breathes with gills, but then grows lungs and lives on land.
What is FALSE?
An amphibian is born in water and breathes with gills, but then grows lungs and lives on land.
Loss of ______ is a main reason why animals become endangered.
What are two things fish and reptiles have in common?
What is they are both covered with scales and are born from eggs?
What is MIGRATION?
_______ is imitating the features of another animal to keep predators away.
What is MIMICRY?
True or False? A defining trait of mammals is that they have legs.
Some mammals have legs, but not all.
What do you call illegal hunting?
What is POACHING?
What are the platypus and the echidna?