Vertebrates
What the word "vertebrate" means.
What the word "Invertebrate" means.
What is "Having No Backbone"?
The animals that have exoskeletons, live on the ocean floor and try to grab with their pincer claws!
What are Crabs/Lobsters?
The green, spiky, hollow plants found in many deserts.
What are Cactuses/Cacti?
The name of the desert animals which have a hump on their backs and store water.
What is a Camel?
The group of animals that have backbones, have feathers and beaks, and lay eggs.
What are Birds?
All invertebrates have this, when their blood changes to be as cold or hot as the air around them.
What is Cold Blooded?
The creatures that float in the ocean with tentacles, not yummy with peanut butter and not really fish.
What are Jellyfish?
A name for the pokey things on the outsides of Cacti.
What are Spikes/Thorns?
The name of the animal which hops around the desert, related to bunnies.
What is a Jackrabbit?
The group of animals that have backbones, scales, lay eggs, and breathe with their lungs.
What are Reptiles?
What is an Exoskeleton?
The squishable creatures which have eight tentacles, two eyes, and a beak to open fish and clams.
What are Octopuses/Squids?
The name of a weed that comes loose, dies, and bumps around in the wind across the land.
What is a Tumbleweed?
The name of the little jumping rat which gets all its water just by eating seeds.
What is a Kangaroo Rat?
What are Mammals?
The name of the group of creatures without backbones that have six legs, three body parts, and an exoskeleton.
What are Insects?
The name of any animal in the ocean with multiple arms, hundreds of little eyes, and with the ability to grow any arms that fall off! It can also push out its stomach to eat its prey.
What are Starfish?
Where a cactus stores its water.
What is "Inside/Hollow"?
The name of the little bird which makes its house in holes within a cactus.
What is an Elf Owl?
The group of animals that are born in water but live also on land, lay eggs, are smooth and slippery, and breathe with lungs and gills.
What are Amphibians?
The name for the colors of an animal as it blends into its surroundings, either as a trick or as survival to stay safe.
What is Camouflage?
What are Shrimp?
How plants in the desert reach water way below the ground.
What are Long Roots?
The animal which waits till it rains in the desert to lay its eggs.
What is the Desert Toad?