Characteristics
Adaptations
Major Groups
Bird Flight
Name the Animal
100
All kinds of birds and all kinds of mammals are this.
What is an endothermic vertebrate?
100
Feathers that give shape to a bird's body.
What is a contour feather?
100
The 6 groups of birds listed in your animal science books.
What are bee-eaters, owls, game-birds, ostriches, long-legged waders, and perching birds?
100
The three types of bird flight.
What are flapping, soaring, and gliding?
100
This animal has a four chambered heart and fur. It's young develops inside the mother's body and it is an ocean-dweller. What could it be?
What is a whale, manatee, or dolphin?
200
All mammals feed their young with this.
What is milk?
200
The three parts of a bird that are usually adapted for living in diverse environments.
What are the legs, claws, and bills?
200
The three groups of mammals.
What are monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals?
200
This type of bird flight requires a lot of energy. It involves the bird sharply pulling down it's wings.
What is flapping?
200
This animal has a four-chambered heart, feathers, and is the largest living type of this animal. It can not do something that other animals of this kind can do.
What is the ostrich?
300
These two things help keeps mammals and birds warm.
What are feathers and fur?
300
The adaptation used to divide placental mammals into groups.
What is how they eat?
300
Mammals are classified as monotremes, marsupials, or placental mammals according to this.
how their young develop
300
These types of bird flight involve little wing movement and involves the bird flying with it's wings extended.
What are soaring and gliding?
300
This animal has sharp vision and keen hearing. It hunts at night from the tops of trees. It has sharp claws.
What is an owl?
400
The organ through which some mammals receive food and oxygen from their mothers.
What is the placenta?
400
Both birds and mammals have these types of hearts.
What is a four chambered heart?
400
Three types of marsupials.
What are kangaroos, koalas, and opossums?
400
The difference in _______ above and below a bird's wings causes lift.
What is air pressure?
400
This animal is covered with fur. They have large brains and eyes that face forward. This group includes you and me!
What are primates?
500
The four types of mammal teeth.
What are incisors, canine, premolars, and back molars?
500
The large muscle located under the lungs that assist mammals in breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
500
This is used to group placental mammals.
What is how they eat and move?
500
The type of flight that does not use lift.
What is diving?
500
These mammals have long hind legs specialized for leaping. They also have long, curled incisors for gnawing at their food.
What are rabbits and hares?