A | B |
Animals without backbones | invertebrates |
Animals with backbones | vertebrates |
Animals find their own food. What do plants do? | make their own food |
Usually animals move around. What do most plants do? | they are held to the ground by roots |
What is in the skeleton of a vertebrate? | the backbone and all the other bones |
How many groups of vertebrates are there? | five |
How are animals classified? | by their design: their parts and how they are put together |
This group of animals makes milk, have hair, limbs, are warm blooded, and breathe with lungs | mammals |
Group of animals that have gills to breathe, fins to swim, and are cold blooded | fish |
This vertebrate swims back upstream to the place where they were hatched to nest and lay their eggs | salmon |
Whales have lungs and breathe | Air |
Most living things are either plants or | Animals |
Mammals breathe air with | Lungs |
Fish breathe air with | Gills |
Which group of vertebrates spend the first part of their lives in water, then can live on land? | Amphibians |
Amphibians | Which group of vertebrates lay their eggs in water and the babies when they hatch breathe air with gills? |
Are amphibians cold blooded or warm blooded? | Cold blooded |
Are mammals cold or warm blooded? | Warm blooded |
Amphibian means | Living a double life |
Which group of vertebrates include snakes, lizards, turtles, and alligators? | Reptiles |
Reptiles | Dry, scaly skin is a characteristic of which vertebrate group? |
Do reptiles breathe with lungs or gills? | Lungs |
How does a snake hear? | By feeling vibrations of sound through the ground |
Smell | What does a snake use his tongue for? |
What happens to a snake about once a year? | It sheds its skin because it becomes too loose |
Which group of vertebrates has feathers? | Birds |
Birds | They eat harmful insects that would eat our plants |
If a bird makes a nest on the ground, what color is it? | A dull color |
Why does a bird build a nest? | To raise the baby birds |
What makes birds fly? | Feathers |
How does a baby bird get out of the shell? | By pecking until the egg cracks |
What are these 5 things? has feathers, wings, 2 legs, breathes with lungs, and have beaks | How all birds are alike |