Endotherms vs Ectotherms
The two main parts of a closed circulatory system.
What are the heart and blood vessels?
A creature that has scaly skin, breathes with lungs, and lays eggs that have a leathery covering.
What is a reptile?
The name meaning. "double life."
What is an amphibian?
A creature without legs that has gills to breathe and a scale-covered body.
What is a fish?
A creature that has feathers, hollow bones, beaks, and lays eggs.
What is a bird?
All vertebrates have this structure made of bone or cartilage.
What is an endoskeleton?
A reptile that eats insects, which they catch with their long, sticky tongues.
What is a lizard?
The beginning stage of an amphibian where it feeds off of plants and lives underwater.
What is a tadpole?
The part of a fish that it "breathes" through.
What are gills?
Three wing shapes of a bird.
What are broad, rounded wings; slender, curved wings, and straight, narrow wings?
The type of circulatory system vertebrates have.
What is a closed circulatory system?
The climate that most crocodiles and alligators live in.
What is hot, dry climates?
Where the amphibian mainly lives the second part of its life.
What is "on the land"?
A bony fish fills its swim bladder with this in order to ascend as it swims.
What is air?
The large breastbone of a bird that supports its chest muscles.
What is the keel?
An organism that uses the environment to regulate their body temperature.
What is an ectotherm?
The diet of most snakes.
What is an rodents?
The four parts of a frog's life cycle.
What are: Frog eggs, newly hatched tadpoles, older tadpole with legs, adult frog?
Most fish have a very well-developed sense of these three things.
What is sight, smell, and taste?
The difference between bird's bones and other mammal's bones.
An organism that internally regulates its body temperature.
What is an endotherm?
Three subgroups of reptiles.
What are snakes and lizards, alligators and crocodiles, and turtles?
Three groups of amphibians.
What are caecilians, salamanders, and toads and frogs?
The two parts of a fish that help protect it, give balance, and propels it through the water.
What are fins and scales?
The three main types of feathers and the function of each.
Flight: Provide motion and lift.
Contour: Streamline the body and help protect
Down: Provide warmth/insulation