Vertebrates vs Invertebrates
This is the word for animals that have a backbone or spine.
What are vertebrates?
This group of vertebrates has hair or fur and feeds their babies milk.
What are mammals?
This is the first stage in the life cycle
This hard central column of bones protects your spinal cord and helps you stand up straight.
What is the backbone (or spine)?
This word means an animal can make its own body heat and stay warm even when it is freezing outside.
What is warm-blooded?
This is the word for animals that do not have a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
This group of animals is covered in feathers and has a beak and wings.
What are birds?
The special change that a caterpillar goes through to turn into a butterfly is called this.
What is metamorphosis?
Fish and young amphibians use these special organs to breathe underwater.
What are gills?
This word means an animal's body temperature changes depending on how hot or cold the air or water is around them.
What is cold-blooded?
Is a tarantula/spider a vertebrate or an invertebrate?
What is an invertebrate?
These animals live part of their lives in water (breathing with gills) and part on land (breathing with lungs).
What are amphibians?
A young frog starts its life in the water looking like a little swimming fish with a tail. What is it called?
What is a tadpole?
This organ inside your head protects your brain.
What is the skull?
When an animal blends into its surroundings using colors or patterns to hide from predators, it is using this trick
What is camouflage?
Is a dolphin or whale a vertebrate or an invertebrate?
What is a vertebrate?
These cold-blooded reptiles have skin covered in dry scales and usually lay eggs on land.
What are reptiles?
Put these human life stages in order from youngest to oldest: Adult, Baby, Child, Teenager.
What is Baby, Child, Teenager, Adult?
Adult amphibians, birds and mammals use these organs to breathe air.
What are lungs?
This is the passing down of physical traits, like eye color or fur type, from parent animals to their offspring.
What is heredity?
Name two body parts that all vertebrates share in common.
What are a spine/backbone, skull, and internal skeleton?
Which two groups of vertebrates are warm-blooded (can control their own body heat)?
What are mammals and birds?
Unlike mammals that give birth to live young, most amphibians and reptiles begin life this way.
What is laying eggs?
This is what mammals feed their babies.
What is milk?
This term describes a special body part or behavior that helps an animal survive in its specific ecosystem.
What is an adaptation?