Dem Bones
Mammal Medley
Mammalian Orders
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100

This type of animal has a backbone.

What is a vertebrate?

100

This is what a group of kangaroos is called.

What is a mob?

100

Have a pouch in which their young develop.

What are marsupials?

100

This is the common name for your cat's vibrissae.

What are whiskers?

100

This is when diurnal organisms are most active.

What is the daytime?

200

This type of animal does not have a backbone.

What is an invertebrate?

200

The only group of mammals considered truly carnivorous because they don't eat plants.

What are felines?

200

Largest group of mammals.

What are rodents?

200

This is the type of symmetry exhibited by mammals.

What is bilateral.

200

An aquatic habitat consists mainly of this.

What is water?

300

An internal skeleton.

What is an endoskeleton?

300

Bats are able to find their insect prey using this system.

What is echolocation?

300

Includes shrews moles and hedgehogs.

What are insectivores?

300

An organism's scientific name consists of these two elements.

What are genus and species.

300

The study of reasoning.

What is logic?

400

These flat teeth are used for grinding food.

What are molars?

400

An animal is considered this when there are no remaining known members of its species.

What is extinct?

400

Have four upper incisors that continue growing.

What are lagomorphs?

400

In a plant embryo, the radicle develops into these structures.

What are roots?

400

The most important group of plants on the planet.

What are grasses?

500

The common name for the patella bone.

What is the kneecap?

500

A slow moving arboreal xenarthran with large claws.

What is a sloth?

500

Oviparous mammals.

What are monotremes?

500

Taxonomy is the science of this.

What is classification.

500

The extensions of dead bone without a covering that appear on some hoofed mammals.

What are antlers?