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Vertebrates
Invertebrates
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An animal with a backbone

What is a vertebrate

100

Group of vertebrates that spend their lives in water, have scales, and breathe through gills

What is fish

100

Give one example of an arthropod

What is a spider, insect, etc

100

4 things all animals need

What is food, water, oxygen, and shelter

100
A trait that helps an animal meet its needs in the place where it lives

What is an adaptation

200

Animals without a backbone

What are invertebrates

200

Group of vertebrates that have dry, scaly skin and breathe air through lungs

What is reptiles

200

Another name for the worm group

What is annelids

200

List the 5 life cycle stages

birth, growth, development, reproduction, death

200

A trait that is passed on from parents to their young

What is inherited

300

to spend winter resting

What is to hibernate

300

Group of vertebrates that spend part of life in water and part of life on land

What is amphibians

300

An example of a mollusk

What is an octopus, squid, snails, etc

300

4 ways animals protect themselves from enemies

What is camouflage, poison, armor, and mimicry

300

The covering created pupa stage of a butterfly life cycle

What is a chrysalis 

400

To move to another place to find better climate or food

What is migrate

400

Group of vertebrates that have feathers and bills, no teeth, hollow bones, and breathe through lungs

What is birds

400

Name the 4 major kinds of Invertebrate Animals

What is worms (annelids), mollusks, arthropods, sea jellies (echinoderms, porifera)

400

List the 4 stages in the butterfly life cycle

What is egg, larva, pupa, butterfly

400

When one animal acts like or looks like another animal

What is mimicry

500

A body feature passed on to an animals from its parents

What is a trait

500
Group of vertebrates that are warm-blooded, breathe through lungs, and feed milk to their young

What is mammals

500

Name the 4 major kinds of Invertebrate Animals

What is worms (annelids), mollusks, arthropods, and sea jellies (echinoderms, porifera)

500

List the 5 stages of the frog life cycle

What is eggs, tadpoles, tadpoles with legs, froglet, and adult frog

500

The hard outer covering of some arthropods

What is an exoskeleton