Changes overtime
Animal needs
Categories of vertebrates
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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What is the first stage of every life cycle?
Every vertebrate starts as an egg.
100
What are the four needs all animals need?
All vertebrates need oxygen, water, food and shelter.
100
What is a mammal?
It is an animal that has 1.fur 2.warm blood 3.gives birth to live young 4.takes care of its young 5.Breathes with lungs
100
What are scales?
A small, thin, flat plate that helps protect an animal.
100
What is a gill?
A body part that takes in oxygen from the water.
200
What vertebrate goes through a complete metamorphosis?
Some amphibians.
200
What is oxygen and what are the two ways vertebrates can get it?
Oxygen is a gas either in air or water. Animals can get oxygen from breathing with lungs or through gills.
200
What is a bird?
Birds are an animal that 1. have feathers 2.two legs 3.wings 4.warm blooded and 5.lays eggs
200
What is the change that happens to an animal during its life called?
What is a life cycle?
200
What are a series of changes in appearance that some organisms go through?
Metamorphosis
300
What invertebrate goes through an imcomplete metamorphosis? How many stages are there?
Grasshoppers go through incomplete metamorphosis and there are three stages.
300
1)What are the three ways water can leave your body? 2)What are the two ways you can get it back?
1)Water can leave your body through breathing, sweat or urine. 2) You can drink water or get it from your food.
300
What is a reptile?
It is an animal that has 1.dry scales for skin 2.lays eggs 3. is cold blooded 4. and breathes with lungs
300
What's the stage of complete metamorphosis after an organism is wrapped in a cocoon?
Pupa
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What is the stage of complete metamorphosis after an organism hatches from an egg?
Larva
400
How does a frog change over time?
Frogs have four stages in their life cycle. 1.They start as eggs in water. 2.The grow into tadpoles with gills and tails. 3.They change into tadpoles with limbs and start to grow lungs. 4.They become adult frogs and move onto land with four legs, lungs, no tails and no more gills.
400
1)Why do animals need food? 2) Name three special body parts that help some animals get food.
1)Animals need food to live and grow. 2)Examples: Giraffe's long neck, a pelican's large bill or a lion's sharp teeth and claws...
400
What is an amphibian?
An amphibian is an animal that has 1. a life that begins in water 2. They move onto land as adults 3. They have moist skin 4. They are cold-blooded
400
What is a trait?
A special feature or characteristic about the appearance of a person or thing
400
What is Complete metamorphosis?
This is a kind of metamorphosis where the insect changes the way it looks during its life cycle. There are four stages to this metamorphosis; egg, larva, pupa and adult
500
What category is a whale? What life cycle does it go through? Explain the stages of its life cycle.
1. Whales are mammals because they have hair and lungs. 2. They go through an animal lifecycle. 3. They're born as live young, and the babies look like smaller, cuter versions of the adults.
500
What need do mammals, birds, reptiles and adult amphibians all get the same way?
They all breathe oxygen with lungs.
500
What is a fish?
A fish is an animal that 1. lives its entire life in water. 2. has gills 3. scales 4. and is cold blooded
500
What is heredity? Provide an exampleof something that can be inherited.
Heredity is traits that are given to you by your parents. examples: eye color, height, hair color...
500
What are the categories of vertebrates that we've studied.
We studied fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds.