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20 Cards in this Set
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What is a vertebrate?
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animal with backbone
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What is an invertebrate?
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Animal with out a backbone
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What is a cold blooded animal
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Animale such as fish, amphibians, and reptiles. Their body temp changes with the temp around them.
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What are warm blooded animals?
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Animals like birds and mammals; that keep their body temp the same no matter what the temp outside.
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What do all living things require
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water, food, air, and habitat
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What is photosynthesis?
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Where plants use the light from the sun, chlorophyll, and water to make their own food (sugar)
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What is a carnivore?
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an animal that eats only meat
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What is a herbivore?
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animal that eats only plants
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What is an omnivore?
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animals that eat both plants and animals
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What are the stages of an animals life cycle?
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birth, growth, reproduction, and death
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What is the function of roots?
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to anchor the plant, to absorb water and minerals from the soil, to store food
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What is the function of a plant's leaves?
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To absore the sun's energy to go through photosynthesis.
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What is the function of a plant's stem?
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To transport food from leaves to the roots, and water from the roots to the leaves. To keep the plant standing
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What is the function of the plants flower?
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To attract insects for polliination. to produce a seed.
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What are the characteristics of reptiles?
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cold blooded, back bone. most lays eggs, dry scaly skin
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What the characteristics of amphibians?
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cold-blooded, that has gills early in live, but then grows lungs. smooth, moist skin and no scales, have backbones
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What are the characteristics of mammals?
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warm-blooded, hair, live birth, feeds milk to young, vertebrates
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All food chains get their energy from the...
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sun
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What is the difference between a learned behavior and an instiinct?
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learned behavior are taught.(how to hold a fork)
instincts, animals are born knowing how to do (breathe) |
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What are some adaptations animals make to survive?
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migrate, shed fur (mammals, mold (birds), hibernate, camoflauge
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