Characteristics & Taxonomy
An animal that eats only plants, grass, and berries, such as a deer or a rabbit.
What is a herbivore?
Warm-blooded vertebrates that have hair or fur and feed milk to their young.
What are mammals?
A change in the environment that causes a living thing to react.
What is a stimulus?
The natural environment where a plant or animal lives and finds food, water, and shelter.
What is a habitat?
A physical feature or behavior that helps an animal survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
The scientific system used to name, group, and organize living things based on their similarities.
What is taxonomy?
Vertebrates that start life in water breathing with gills, and grow up to live on land breathing with lungs.
What are amphibians?
The behavior or action a living thing takes after sensing a stimulus.
What is a reaction (or response)?
A close, long-term relationship between two different species living together.
What is symbiosis?
The white fur of a polar bear or the stripes of a tiger that help them blend into their surroundings.
What is camouflage?
The three main things that ALL living things do to stay alive and continue their species.
What are grow, reproduce, and use energy?
Cold-blooded vertebrates with dry, scaly skin that lay eggs on land, like snakes and lizards.
What are reptiles?
If you touch a hot stove and pull your hand back instantly, the hot stove is this part of the process.
What is the stimulus?
A symbiotic relationship where both living things benefit and help each other.
What is mutualism?
A deep sleep that some animals enter during cold winter months to save energy.
What is hibernation?
An animal that eats both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
A frog belongs to this specific vertebrate group.
What is an amphibian?
Stepping into bright sunlight and having your pupils shrink or your eyes squint is an example of this.
What is a reaction (or response) to a stimulus?
The type of symbiotic relationship where a clownfish gets protection from an anemone while keeping the anemone clean.
What is mutualism?
When animals move from one region or habitat to another during specific seasons to find food or warmer weather.
What is migration?
The broad group of living things that can make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers (or plants)?
Two physical characteristics shared by all members of the bird group.
What are feathers, wings, or beaks? (Any two)
A plant turning its leaves toward a window to catch sunlight is reacting to this specific stimulus.
What is light (or sunlight)?
A tick attaching itself to a dog to feed on its blood while hurting the dog is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is parasitism?
Cacti storing water in thick stems and having sharp spines instead of leaves are adaptations for this specific habitat.
What is a desert?