| 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 |