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Animals with a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
Animals without a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
Mostly live in ocean, can be many different colours, cells filter food from the water
What are sponges?
Mostly parasites that feed on other organisms.
What are flatworms?
What is birch bark?
Something that has never been alive. Ex: rock, water, metal, etc.
What is abiotic?
Something that is living or was once alive. Ex: Girl, tree, bacteria, lizard, dolphin, dandelion, etc.
What is biotic?
There are three types of these--jawless, bony and with a skeleton softer than bone.
What are fish?
They have feathers and wings, a beak or bill as a mouth and no teeth.
What are birds?
Give birth to live young, mothers nurse their young.
What are mammals?
Trees that have cones and are evergreen (don’t lose their needles). Ex: pine tree, evergreens, spruce, fir tree, etc.
What are Coniferous trees?
Mostly decomposers, found everywhere in the world.
What is a roundworm?
Have bodies made up of sections.
What are segmented worms?
Live on land or in water, have a segmented body, have an exoskeleton, a hard outer body covering and joined legs, breathe through special organs
What are arthropods?
Lay hard shelled eggs and incubate their young.
What are birds?
Trees that shed their leaves every year. Ex: oak, poplar, birch, maple, etc.
What are deciduous trees?
98% of all animal species are these.
What are invertebrates?
Live on land or in water, have a soft body, usually covered with a hard shell, breathe through gills or lungs, some eat plants, some are predators.
What are molluscs?
They have soft moist skin, 4 legs with webbed feet.
What are amphibians?
Move using fins and lay eggs or give birth to live young.
What are fish?
Animals whose body temperature is the same as that of their surrounding environment. Ex: reptiles, fish,
What are cold blooded animals?
Animals that maintain their body temperature no matter their surroundings. Ex: polar bears, humans, birds, children in grade 6, etc.
What are warm-blooded animals?
They have dry skin covered with hard overlapping scales, live on land or in water.
What are reptiles?
Most lay eggs on land, breathe through lungs.
What are reptiles?
Most lay soft shelled eggs in water, most eat small insects or fish.
What are amphibians?