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ANIMAL CHARACTERISTICS
INVERTEBRATES
VERTEBRATES
ANIMAL SURVIVAL
REPRODUCTION
100
An animal with a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
100
The SIMPLEST invertebrate.
What is a sponge?
100
A warm-blooded vertebrate that gives birth, has hair or fur, and feeds milk to its babies.
What is a mammal?
100
This is when an animal's body parts match up around a central point and match up as a mirror image when folded over.
What is symmetry?
100
The stages of an animal's growth and change: birth, growth, reproduction, death.
What is life cycle?
200
An animal without a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
200
The group of invertebrates that use poison stingers on tentacles to capture prey and for protection.
What is a cnidarian?
200
A vertebrate that has feathers, beaks, clawed or webbed feet, is warm-blooded, and lays eggs.
What is a bird?
200
An animal uses this to blend in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
200
This is how long an animal can be expected to live (the average life).
What is life span?
300
Animals that CANNOT control their body temperature.
What is cold-blooded?
300
Soft-bodied invertebrates, for example: snails, slugs, clams, oysters, squids, and octopus.
What is a mollusk?
300
A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives on land and has waterproof skin with scales or plates.
What is a reptile?
300
This is when one organism imitates or copies the traits of another.
What is mimicry?
300
This is when offspring (babies) inherit traits (characteristics) from both parents.
What is heredity?
400
An animal that has a CONSTANT body temperature.
What is warm-blooded?
400
Echinoderms, like sea stars, sand dollars, and sea urchins, have this INTERNAL supporting structure.
What is an endoskeleton?
400
A cold-blooded vertebrate that spends part of its life in water and part of its life on land.
What is an amphibian?
400
This is a pattern of behavior that is inherited and automatic; something an animal does without even thinking about it.
What is instinct?
400
This is the correct order of an animal's metamorphosis, like the butterfly.
What is egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
500
Name the five characteristics of animals.
What are: 1. eat food, 2. grow and change, 3. move in some way, 4. reproduce, 5. are made of many cells?
500
The largest group of invertebrates, the arthropods, have this hard skeleton on the OUTSIDE of their body.
What is an exoskeleton?
500
A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives in water with gills for breathing.
What is a fish?
500
Things like camouflage, bright warning colors, and thickening fur are some examples of this; which are traits that help organisms survive.
What are adaptations?
500
There are 2 types of reproduction. Name and explain.
What is ASEXUAL - one parent, and SEXUAL - two parents?