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Vertebrate Species
100

Animals with a backbone

Vertebrate

100

ectotherm vertebrates with thin, moist skin, laying eggs in water

amphibians

100
An animal that only eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
100

An endotherm that has a 4 chambered heart and has hair or fur

Mammal

100

Name a marsupial.

Kangaroo, Wombat, Koala, Wallaby, or Opossum

200

Give an examples of a vertebrate class

Fish, Amphibian, Reptile, Birds, Mammals

200

Endotherm vertebrates with feathers.

Birds

200
An animal that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
200

Give an example of a cartilaginous fish 

Sharks, rays or skates

200

Name a placental mammal.

Answers vary (most mammals)

300

Name all the classes of vertebrates

Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals

300

Ectotherm vertebrates with dry scaly skin that lay eggs on land

Reptiles

300
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
300

An example of a monotreme

Echidna or platypus

300

Name the 2 major groups of amphibians

Frogs and Salamanders

400
The phylum shared by all vertebrates.
What is Chordata?
400

Endotherm Vertebrates with mammary glands and hair.

Mammals

400
An animal whose body temperature is dependent upon the outside temperature.
What is ectothermic or cold-blooded?
400

Egg laying Mammals

Monotremes

400

The two type of jawless fish that still exist today

Lampreys and Hagfish

500

Name the levels of classification in order from most general to most specific

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

500
A major change in form that tadpoles go through to become adult frogs.
What is metamorphosis?
500
The two levels of classification that make up the scientific name of an organism.
What is the genus and species?
500

Name the three main groups of fish

Jawless fish, cartilaginous fish, bony fish 

500

name the group of dinosaurs that birds descended from

Theropods