invertebrates
a person who studies insects.
What is an entomologist?
the study of reptiles and amphibians.
What is herpetology?
a person who studies birds
Who is an ornithologist?
a person who studies fish.
another word for animal droppings
What is scat?
The phylum that crawfish belong to.
What are arthropods?
a substance that makes up claws, horns, and fingernails.
What is keratin?
camouflage, insulation, mate attraction
What are some purposes of bird feathers?
a hollow gas filled chamber that helps fish adjust buoyancy.
What is a swim bladder?
The ability of an animal to emit high pitched sounds that helps it to move about, etc, using reflected sound waves
What is echolocation?
The body part that grasshoppers use to hear.
What is tympanum?
sidewinding, concertina, rectilinear, and this are how snakes move.
what is undulating or serpentine (sideways)?
the shape of a bird beak predicts this.
What a bird eats?
Salmon generally find their way home after years in the ocean by this.
What is a keen sense of smell?
A marine mammal is also called this.
What is a cetacean?
an invertebrate characterized by spiny skin.
What is an echinoderm?
What is a tadpole?
The voice box which allows birds to sing
What is a syrinx?
the three classes of fish.
What are jawless, cartilaginous, and bony?
What is rodentia?
the part of a digestive system in some animals that functions to grind food into smaller particles.
What is a gizzard?
The organ on a snake that is responsible for detecting odors?
What is Jacobson's organ?
These three things help facilitate flight in birds.
What are feathers, hollow bones, and muscles?
a group of fish are referred to as these two terms.
What is school and shoal?
What is artiodactyla, carnivora, cetacea, chiroptera, dermoptera, edentatata, hyracoldae, insectivora, lagomorpha, marsupials, monotremes, perissodactyla, pholidata, pinnipedia, primates, proboscidea, rodentia, sirenia, tubulidentata