Characteristics
The three sections of a vertebrate body
What are the head, the trunk, and the tail?
The name of an amphibian with a tail
What is a urodele?
The reptile group turtles are part of
What are chelonians?
The front limbs of a bird
What are wings?
The three groups of mammals
What are monotremes, marsupials and placentals?
The type of skeleton vertebrates have
What is an endoskeleton/internal skeleton?
The structures that allow fish to breathe
What are gills?
The thick skin that covers and protects reptiles
What are scales/corneous scales?
Used by birds instead of teeth
What is a beak?
Covers mammals and helps them control their body temperaure
What is hair?
An example of vertebrate limbs
What are legs/wings/fins?
A fish that has a skeleton that is NOT made of bone
What is a cartilaginous fish?
A reptile that is NOT a tetrapod
What is a snake?
The parts of a feather
What are the shaft, the barbules, and the barbs?
Allow mammals to make milk to feed their babies
The bone that exists in vertebrates but NOT in invertebrates
What is the backbone/vertebral column?
The name for animals who cannot regulate their own body temperature
What is an ectotherm?
The way reptiles find food to eat
What is hunting their prey?
Thing needed in order for bird eggs to hatch
What is incubation?
Humans produce this to help control our body temperature
What is sweat?
The ears and nose are usually located here
What is the head?
The process of going through a lot of physical changes before becoming an adult amphibian
What is metamorphosis?
Allows reptiles to reproduce out of the water
What is an amniotic egg?
Birds that change where they live based on the weather or season
What are migratory birds?
Organ that takes up more space in a human body than in other mammals
What is the brain?