Vertebrates

What are vertebrates?

• Animals with a backbone
• Animals without a backbone

There are five categories of vertebrates.  Which one is not a vertebrate?

• Mammals
• Birds
• Arthropods
• Reptiles

I have fur, I breathe with lungs, and I am warm blooded. What am I?

• Mammal

• Amphibian

• Bird

• Reptile

My body is moist and smooth, I lay eggs, and live in or near the water.  What am I?

• Amphibian
• Reptile
• Bird
• Fish

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Select all the ways birds and mammals are alike?

• mothers take care of their babies

• both are warm blooded

• both have hollow bones to fly

• both are vertebrates

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How do fish breathe?

• Through their gills

• Through their skin

• Through their fins

• Through their feathers

What are fish covered with?

• Skin

• Scales

• Feathers

• Hair

All of the following are characteristics of mammals except _____

• they give birth to live young
• they produce milk
• they breathe through gills
• they are covered with hair

What word means  body temperature changes when the outside temperature changes?

• cold blooded
• warm blooded
• classify
• vertebrate

What word means body temperature stays the same no matter what the outside temperature is?

• cold blooded
• warm blooded
• classify
• vertebrate