Vertebrate
Characteristics
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
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This vertebrate has hair and feeds milk to it's young.
What is a mammal?
100
An animal that does not have a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
100
A word that means different. In animal breeding, it is having slightly different traits within the same species of animals.
What is diversity?
100
A duck's webbed feet are an example of a(n) ______________ trait.
What is inherited?
100
Animals avoid certain butterflies that look like the monarch. The monarch is foul-tasting, so the animals think this is a monarch. What kind of adaptation is this?
What is mimicry?
200
This vertebrate has gills and can breathe underwater
What is a fish?
200
An animal that has a backbone is called this.
What is a vertebrate?
200
The passing of traits from parents to the offspring is called this.
What is heredity?
200
A bird's nest-building behavior, or a human baby who takes his first breath is an example of a/an _____________ behavior. A wolf's hunting skills or a human's ability to speak a specific language is an example of a/an _______ behavior.
What is instinct, inherited? What is learned?
200
Name similarities and differences between vertebrates and invertebrates. Name at least two similarities and one difference.
Similarities are: both are living organisms, both have cells, neither make their own food, both need oxygen to survive. Differences are: backbone/no backbone, vertebrates have bone or cartilage
300
This vertebrate has smooth, slimy skin and lives the first half of it's life in the water, and the second half on land.
What is an amphibian?
300
An adaptation that allows an animal to look like something else.
What is mimicry?
300
A living thing that has parents that are from a different species is called this. For example: A mule A living thing that has different parents from within the SAME species is called this. For example: A labradoodle
What is a hybrid? What is a cross-breed?
300
A specific type of camouflage adaptation that allows an organism to change colors to blend into the environment.
What is protective coloration?
300
What is the main reason that animals have adaptations?
To survive in their environments.
400
This vertebrate has scales and is cold-blooded. They breathe through their lungs. Their eggs have a leathery consistency
What is a reptile?
400
An adaptation that allows an animal to blend into it's surroundings.
What is camouflage?
400
A group of organs that work together, such as the digestive system is called this.
What is an organ system?
400
A characteristic that allows an animal to survive in it's environment is called this.
What is an adaptation?
400
Name the two different types of metamorphosis and name the stages of each. Also, name an animal that is an example of each type.
What is complete and incomplete metamorphosis? Complete includes egg, larva, pupa, adult (butterfly) incomplete includes egg, nymph, and adult (grasshopper)
500
These vertebrates have feathers and beaks or bills. Their bones are usually very lightweight. Please give the scientific and common name for this group.
What is Aves? What are birds?
500
Similar cells that have the same job or function are called this.
What is tissue?
500
The stages of growth that an animal goes through during it's lifetime is called this.
What is the life cycle?
500
People sometimes do this with animals and plants to produce specimens that are disease free. The offspring of this process will share both desirable and undesirable traits from the parents.
What is cross-breeding?
500
Use the key below to determine the animal that has gills and fins. Then use it to determine which has lungs and nurses it's young. 1. If the animal breathes with gills, go to #2 If the animal breathes with lungs, go to #3 2. If the animal has fins, it is a shark. If the animal has tentacles, it is an octopus. 3. If the animal has a shell, it is a turtle. If the animal nurses it's young, it is a whale.
what is a shark? What is a whale?