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How to birds and mammals breathe?
Birds and mammals breathe through lungs.
What does the word characteristic mean?
Characteristic is a typical or unique feature.
What is the external covering of birds that helps assist in flight and insulation?
Feathers
What are the seven levels of classication?
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
What is a metabolism?
The physical and chemical processes by which energy is made available.
What does it mean to be warm-blooded?
Warm-blooded describes animals that maintain a nearly constant body temperature regardless of their surrounding temperature, with only slight variations.
What is a pair of breathing organs that is located in the chest that helps remove carbon dioxide and brings oxygen to the blood?
Lungs
Birds produce offspring by laying eggs.
What does it mean to be two-legged?
Bipedal
All animals belong to which kingdom?
All animals belong to the kingdom Animalia.
How to mammals produce offspring?
Mammals produce offspring by giving birth to live young.
What are mammals covered with?
Hair or Fur
What is a placental?
Young are nourished inside a female's body until they are well-developed.
What do all animals in the Phylum Chordata have in common?
All animals in the Phylum Chordata have a backbone. They are vertebrates.
What are mammary glands?
The milk-producing glands of female mammals used to nourish their young.
What is terrestrial?
Land dwellers
List the two classes of animals that are warm- blooded.
Birds and Mammals
- live in rain forest - live in trees
- hang from branches - green from algae
- have babies in trees - babies cling to mother's
- eat leaves and fruit in the dark - nocturnal
What are 2 interesting facts about owls?
- live on every continent expect Antarctica
- big head, small body - 5in to 2ft
- lay 2 to 7 eggs - good eyesight
- amazing hearing - do not build their own nests
- both parents care for owlets - nocturnal