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Animals with a backbone |
Vertebrates |
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Largest group of animals without a backbone |
Invertebrates |
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Animals with backbones, usually with hair or fur, feed milk to its young |
Mammals |
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Animals with backbone, feathers, wings, hatch from eggs and 2 legs |
Birds |
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Animals with bones, live in water, are covered in scales, hatch from eggs and have gills |
Fish |
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Animals with bones and dry, scaly skin |
Reptiles |
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Animals with bones, live part of their life on land and part of their life in water, have smooth wet skin and hatch from eggs |
Amphibians |
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A color or shape that makes an animal hard to see |
Camouflage |
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A special body part that gets oxygen from the water |
Gills |
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Animals without bones, have 3 body parts, 6 legs and antennae |
Insects |
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All of the living and no living things around an animal |
Environment |
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Body parts that help insects feel, smell, hear, and taste things |
Antennae |
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Body part that help fish swim |
Fins |
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Body parts that protect some fish from other animals |
Spikes |
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Whisker-like body parts that help some fish find food |
Feelers |
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Largest group of invertebrates that include insects and spiders |
Arthropods |
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Throat are of an insect |
Thorax |
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The stomach area of an insect |
Abdomen |
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Describes animals whose body temperature remains the same regardless of their environment's temperature; includes mammals and birds |
Warm-blooded |
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Describes animals whose body temperature changes based on its environment's temperature; includes fish and reptiles |
Cold-blooded |
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Some animals with backbones are _____, _____, ____, _____, and _____. |
mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians |
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Some animals without backbones are a _____ _____, the ____ _____, an ____, and _____. |
Walking stick, honeypot ant, octopus, spiders |
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Camouflaged while on a plant to help make it hard to find |
Walking stick |
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Stores food in its abdomen |
Honeypot ant |
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Lives in the ocean, has good eyesight and suction cups on its arms to hold food. |
Octopus |
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Have eight legs and spin webs for trapping insects |
Spiders |
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What are some ways mammals are adapted to their environment? |
Chipmunks store food for the winter and a mule deer's fur changes color. |
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What are some ways birds are adapted to their environment?
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The nightjar's feathers camouflage it to look like leaves, the hummingbird's beak is adapted to help it eat, and the penguin's top feathers are waterproof and feathers below top feathers trap air to keep it warm. |
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What are some ways fish are adapted to their environment?
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Fish have gills to get oxygen from water and fins to swim. The porcupine fish can make itself big for protection, the catfish has feelers that help it find food and the stingray has a sharp spike for protection. |
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What are some ways reptiles are adapted to their environment?
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Body is cold when air is cold and warm when air is warm. A chameleon has a long tongue to catch food, a snake's mouth opens wide to swallow food whole, and a desert iguana's light skin keeps in cool in the hot, sunny desert. |
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What are some ways amphibians are adapted to their environment?
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Begin lives in water an move to land when grown. Frogs live near water and have smooth, wet skin. Toads have dry, rough skin and bury themselves during the day to keep cool. |