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47 Cards in this Set
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food, water, oxygen, and shelter
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How do animals get oxygen? |
from the air or from water |
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How do animals get the water they need? |
by drinking water or from the foods they eat
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A shelter helps protect an animal from other animals and from the weather.
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Traits are the body features that an animal inherits from its parents.
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from the water or from the air at the water's surface
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air, water, food, shelter
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Mammals have fur or hair, use lungs to breather, ususally give birth to live young, and feed their young with milk make by the mother's body. |
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Birds have feathers, two legs, and wings. They have lungs for breathing and bear young that hatch from eggs
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breathe with lungs
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an animals that begin life in the water and move onto land as adults
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1. lay eggs, 2. beginning life in water and later moving to land, 3. have most skin
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in the water
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on land
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Yong frogs have gills and tails. The gills disappear when the young amphibians form lungs. the tails disappear at the same time. |
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metamorphosis
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in the water
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How does the way a tadpole breathes differ from the way an adult frog breathes? |
A tadpole breathes with gills; an adult frog breathes with lungs.
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It eventually disappears.
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Fish live in water and breathe with gills. |
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What are three traits of reptiles? |
Reptiles are covered with scales, lay eggs on land, and breathe with lungs. |
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It serves to protect them from things like bad weather, being moved around, or other animals. |
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Reptiles breathe with lungs and most live on land. Fish breathe with gills and always live in the water.
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Reptiels are covered with scales, lay eggs on land, and breathe with lungs
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lizards and snakes; alligators and crocodiles; tortoises and turtles
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The turtle has a shell that protects it from enemies.
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Gills take in oxygen for water.
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amphibians
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Birds
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scales
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Reptiles
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hibernate
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air, food, water, living space (shelter)
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have smooth, mosit skin; lay eggs
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lay eggs and have scales
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mammal
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amphibian |
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Animals that have backbones |
Vertebrates |
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Animals that don't have a backbone |
Invertebrates |
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Name and example of Vertebrate |
Bird, Mammal |
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Name example of invertebrate |
insect |
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What are the characteristics of Arachnids? |
8 legs, 2 body parts, an exoskeleton (spiders and ticks) |
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What are the characteristics of mollusks? |
soft bodies, usually a shell to protect them (snails, clams and squids) |
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Name an example of how invertebrates are important? |
Bees pollenate flowers Earthworms help make soil healthhy Spiders help control the amount of insects by eating them. |
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what are two types of Arachnids |
Spiders and ticks |
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name two types of insects? |
Bees and butterfly |
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Name two types of mollusks? |
snails and clams |