Animals Vocabulary Unit 4

A skeleton INSIDE the organism's body is called _?

• Endoskeleton

• Exoskeleton

An ____ is an animal without a backbone.

• Vertebrate

• Invertebrate

• Adaptation

Trait is a characteristic such as body shape or what it eats.

• True

• False

The ability for an organism to blend into its surroundings is called _?

• Behavior

• Mammal

• Instinct

• Camouflage

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Ectothermic is having a body temperature of the environment around you.

• True

• False

When an animal CHANGES so it can survive in its environment.

• Adaptation

• Arthropod

• Imprinting

• Instinct

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Something an animal gets from its parents that doesn't need to be learned.

• Imprinting

• Instinct

• Inherited Behavior

Endothermic is having a core temperature that stays the same regardless of their environment.

• True

• False

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What is an exoskeleton?

• Skeleton outside the body

• Skeleton inside the body

Cold blooded, lays eggs, smooth skin, lives on land and in water

• Mammal

• Fish

• Reptile

• Amphibian

• Bird

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