Classification
This type of animal has fur or hair.
What is a mammal?
When animals can use their coloring to blend in to their surroundings to keep them safe from predators.
What is camouflage?
This habitat is very cold and has smaller trees and shrubs in the summer. It is covered with ice and snow much of the winter.
What is the Arctic (or tundra)?
This is the largest mammal in the world.
What is a blue whale?
An animal that eats mainly meat.
What is a carnivore?
This type of has wings, feathers, and hollow bones.
What is a bird?
When animals/birds/butterflies travel to far away places to find food or water, like a duck flying south for winter.
What is migration?
This habitat covers 75% of the world and is a home to many creatures who need salt water to stay alive.
What is the ocean?
These animals have many rows of teeth and a black-tipped fin on their backs.
What is a black-tipped shark?
An animal that eats mainly plants.
What is an herbivore?
Striped racer, Western fence lizard, bearded dragon.
What are reptiles?
When an animal spends the winter in a deep sleep so not much food is needed.
What is hibernation?
This habitat has many trees, plants and many animals that make their home there. It usually sees all kinds of weather (the four seasons) and many trees lose their leaves in the winter.
What is the forest?
This ocean mammal is native to our shorelines and is often seen around harbors and on docks.
What is a sea lion?
An animal that eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
This type of animal starts its life in the water with gills and then develops lungs to live on land.
What is an amphibian?
This is the process of adapting wild plants or animals to live with humans.
What is domestication?
This habitat gets rain almost every day. It is the home to many unique plants and animals.
What is the rainforest?
This crustacean can live to be over 100 years old.
What is a lobster?
An animal's body converts food into this.
What is energy?
This is the name of the giraffe's only living relative.
What is an Okapi?
An adaptation in which an otherwise harmless animal looks like a harmful animal in order to protect itself.
What is mimicry?
This habitat gets very little rain and is usually very hot during the day and is home to hardy plants and a few animals and reptiles who have developed to be able to conserve water.
What is the desert?
This sea creature is social, intelligent and has three hearts.
What is an octopus?
This type of animal does not have teeth and swallows its food whole.
What is a bird?