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Vocabulary
How are animals grouped?
How do animals grow and change?
How do adaptations help animals?
How are animals from past like today's animals?
100
What is the name of animals with backbones?
vertebrates
100
Are there more vertebrates or invertebrates in the world?
invertebrates
100
What do all animals start out as? (an egg, larva, pupa, or adult)
an egg
100
You can sometimes tell what a bird eats by the shape of its ___________________.
beak, bill
100
What do scientists study to learn about life long ago? ( rocks, fossils, mollusks, or leaves)
fossils
200
Which word means to move from one place to another to find food, climate, or a mate?
migration
200
Which type of vertebrate is warm blooded, gives live birth, has hair or fur, and gives milk to it's young?
mammal
200
A young frog looks like what other type of animal? (fish, bird or reptile)
fish
200
Mimicry is when an animal does what? Pretends to be something dangerous, is poisonous, camoflauges itself, or has an armour
pretends to be something dangerous
200
Which of these is a fossil? ( a photo, a drawing, a rock, or a beetle trapped in amber)
beetle trapped in amber
300
Which word means to spend the winter resting?
hibernate
300
Which type of vertebrate has gills and fins, lays eggs, and gets its oxygen from the water?
fish
300
Which stage of an animals life is right after hatching? (egg, larva, or pupa)
larva
300
A horned lizard's spikes are an example of what? (poison, mimcry, armour, or camoflauge)
armour
300
Which animal is extinct? ( collard lizard, spider, T Rex, tiger)
T Rex
400
What is the name of a trait that helps an animal meet its need in the place where it lives called?
adaptation
400
Which type of vertebrate is warm blooded, lays eggs, and has feathers and wings?
birds
400
What stage of a butterfly's life is when it is a chrysalis? (egg, larva, or pupa)
pupa
400
What type of teeth do meat eaters have?
sharp front teeth to tear off meat and back teeth to shred it.
400
The Badlands where some dinosaurs used to live used to have lots of plants, what is that area like today?
a desert
500
A body feature passed on to an animal from its parents is called ________________.
trait
500
Name all 5 groups of vertebrates.
Mammal, reptile, fish, birds, amphibians
500
What do all animals need to live and grow? (4 things)
water, oxygen, food, shelter
500
What are all 4 ways that animals can protect themselves?
mimcry, poison, armour, and camoflauge
500
What turns in to amber?
hardened tree sap over many, many years