1. Animal Test
By: Julia Mayer

2. Classifications
Birds
Mammals
Reptiles
Insects
Fish
Amphibians

3. Characteristics of living things:
Need energy / food
Made of cells
Breathe air / oxygen
React to weather / environment
Grow and change
Reproduce (to make babies)

4. 2 groups of animals Vertebrates Have a backbone
Examples: birds, mammals, fish, reptiles
Invertebrates
DO NOT have a backbone
Examples: insects, arachnids (spiders e.t.c.)

5. “Endangered” = Animals that are on their way to becoming extinct
Examples: kangaroos, bald eagle, pandas African elephants

6. “Extinct” = Types of animals that have all died out.
Example: woolly mammoth, saber tooth tiger, dinosaurs

7. What is a fossil?
A fossil is a skeleton of a plant or animal that is imprinted in rock.

8. How do fossils help us? It tells us clues about the past
How things move
What used to be there

9. Adaptations
Physical
A physical adaptation is an adaptation that the animal is born with.
A long, sticky tongue on a frog.
Behavioral
A behavioral adaptation is when the mother or father has to teach the animal to do it.
Flying south for the winter

10. Extinct or “alive and well”?
African Elephant
Large ears
Giant feet
Woolly Mammoths
Much more hair
Long white tusks

11. Changes in habitat affect animals
If a person cuts down trees, a beaver’s life will be affected because beavers build homes out of trees.
Somebody tells a company to stop polluting so fish can live in clean water.
If a farmer puts pesticides on a bug and anything that eats bugs can die.

12. Purpose of physical adaptations
Long ostrich legs.
Long giraffe neck.
Striped tiger fur.
Special shark coloring.
To run fast.
To reach leaves others can’t reach.
For camouflage.
So sharks can blend in.

13. Mammal characteristics
Has fur or hair
Warm- blooded
Take care of young
Often live in groups
Born live
Babies fed on mothers milk
Many build homes or dens
Breathe oxygen
A lot are intelligent

14. Reptile characteristics
Most have scales
Cold-blooded
Care for young a little while
Do not live in groups (usually)
Hatch from an egg
Mother DOES NOT produce milk
Carnivore

15. Amphibians
They live in water in water at first and then adapt to live on land
Cold-blooded
Young born in eggs
Herbivore

16. Birds Most birds can fly Warm-blooded
Have feathers, a beak, and 2 legs
A behavioral adaptation is that birds fly south for the winter
They are born in an egg
Some birds are carnivores and some are herbivores

17. Fish Live under water Breathe through gills
Some are herbivores some are carnivores
Born in eggs
No eyelids