A | B |
fish traits | cold-blooded, gills, scales, eggs |
amphibian traits | cold-blooded, gills/lungs, eggs |
reptile traits | cold-blooded, lungs, eggs |
bird traits | warm-blooded, lungs, eggs |
mammal traits | warm-blooded, lungs, live birth |
vertebrate | animal with a backbone |
invertebrate | animal without a backbone |
breathing with gills | how fish get oxygen in water |
breathing with lungs | how animals get oxygen from air |
three groups of reptiles | lizards & snakes, turtles & tortoises, and crocodilians |
three groups of amphibians | newts/salamanders, frogs/toads, caecilians |
three groups of mammals | monotremes, marsupials, & placentals |
monotreme traits | mammals that lay eggs |
marsupial traits | mammals that have pouches |
placental traits | babies grow inside the mother |
evolution | how new species develop from old ones over long periods of time |
metamorphosis | change in body form from one life stage to the next |
life cycle | all the stages in an animal's life |
cell | The smallest part of a living thing |
zoologist | A scientist who studies animals |
cold-blooded animals | fish, amphibians, and reptiles |
warm-blooded animals | birds and mammals |
animals with lungs | reptiles, birds, and mammals |
animals which lay eggs | fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds |
scientific theory | an idea which explains all the facts |