| A | B |
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| amphibian | smooth, moist skin, cold blooded, born in water using gills, has lungs |
| reptile | scales, cold blooded, vertebrate |
| bird | feathers, vertebrate, warm blooded, beaks, most have hollow bones |
| fish | gills, cold blooded, vertebrate |
| mammal | warm blooded, fur or hair, vertebrate, live babies |
| vertebrate | has backbone |
| invertebrate | no backbone but may have exoskeleton |
| prey | hunted |
| predator | hunter |
| adaptation | something that is used by an animal to help it survive |
| behavioral adaptation | Any action a plant or animal takes to survive in an environment is called a behavioral adaptation. Think about the word BEHAVE. |
| instinctual behavior | This is an action that they automatically due from the time they are born on. For instance, migrating south during the winter. |
| learned behavior | Any action that animal takes to survive that it learns from others around them. For instance, a baby cheetah following the mom as she shows him how to hunt. |
| physical adaptation | This is something on their body that lets them survive better. For instance, the thicker coat of fur a dog or cat gets during the winter. |
| deforestation | cutting down a forest for farming, housing, or some other human reason |
| habitat destruction | destroying an animal natural habitat or home for human reasons |
| overhunting/overharvesting | hunting something so much that they can't make babies fast enough to keep the population going |
| pollution | light, water, air, land |
| global warming | term used to describe the rising of the average temperature on Earth. It has to do with the overall climate of the Earth rather than the weather on any given day. Read more at: https://www.ducksters.com/science/environment/global_warming.php This text is Copyright © Ducksters. Do not use without permission. |
| invasive species | a species that is brought into a place it wouldn't normally be found and has NO natural predators. |
| hibernation | instinctual behavior |
| migration | instinctual behavior |
| pack hunting | learned behavior |
| mimicry | physical adaptation |
| camouflage | physical adaptation |
| nocturnal | awake at night and impacted by light pollution |
| diurnal | awake during the day and impacted by global warming |
| endangered | A species considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild. |
| vulnerable | A species considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild. |
| extinct in the wild | The only living ones in a species are in zoos. |
| extinct | no living members of the species in the wild or captivity |
