Mammal Vocabulary
These are the classification of all animals with backbones.
What are vertebrates?
What is the only mammal that can fly?
What is the bat?
A mammal is a ruminant if it does what?
What is "if it chews its own cud"?
True or false: A mammal that lays eggs is the echidna.
What is true?
Cougar
What is a feline?
The kind of place in which an animal prefers to live.
What is its habitat?
Name the family group in which lions live.
What is a pride?
What do we call a mammal that is active at night?
What is "nocturnal"?
Are horns or antlers made of solid bone?
What are antlers?
Fox
What is a canine?
Mammals which eat flesh.
What are carnivores?
What is the fastest land animal on earth?
What is the cheetah?
What do we call animals that live together in groups of the same kind?
What are "social" animals?
What is the strong-smelling substance produced by skunks and other members of the weasel family?
What is musk?
Chimpanzee
What is a primate?
Mammals that make up the largest group of mammals.
What are rodents?
What do giant pandas mostly eat?
What is bamboo?
What do we call an inherited behavior?
What is instinct?
An animal is extinct if it no longer what?
What is "if it no longer exists"?
Squirrel
What is a rodent?
Special milk-producing glands provided to female mammals.
What are mammary glands?
Whales and dolphins have a layer of what for warmth?
What is blubber?
God designed nature to be able to respond to change. This principle is known as what?
What is balance of nature?
What do we call an animal whose father and mother are of the same species?
What is purebred?
Wombat
What is a marsupial?