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This type of skin covering can be found on both fish and reptiles.
What are scales?
The type of covering found on birds.
What are feathers?
Skin, feathers, scales and fur all provide this to animals.
What is physical protection?
Methods animals use that allow them to blend into their environment to avoid being seen by predators or prey.
What is camouflage?
The process of shedding and replacing parts or all of one’s coat or outer covering.
What is molting?
An organ of the body that allows an animal to see.
What is an eye?
A part of an animal’s nervous system that includes the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch.
What is the sensory system?
The dark part of the center of the eye where light enters.
What is the pupil?
Making something narrower.
What is constriction?
Making something bigger or wider or stretching it.
What is dilation?
An organ the pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
The number of times the heart beats in a certain amount of time.
What is a heart rate?
Regular expansion and contraction of the artery caused by the heart pumping blood through the body.
What is a pulse?
An instrument used for listening to breathing, heartbeats and other sounds made by the body.
What is a stethoscope?
The upper chambers of the heart.
What are the right and left atrium?
The shortening of muscle tissue that allows movement of body parts.
What is muscle contraction?
A form of land animal locomotion using two legs.
What is bipedal locomotion?
A type of movement that is typical of a snake, curving in an “S” shape.
What is serpentine locomotion?
The act of bending a joint or limb by the action of flexor muscles.
What is flexion?
The straightening or extending of a limb of the body by the action of extensor muscles.
What is muscle extension?
The taking of food into the body.
What is ingestion?
The discharging of waste matter from the body.
What is excretion?
The process in which ingested food is broken down in the body and converted to substances that the body can absorb.
What is digestion?
The uptake of substances by tissues in the body.
What is absorption?
To move substances from one place to another via the blood.
What is transport?
A type of germ that causes diseases. Rabies is an example.
What is a virus?
An organism that lives and feeds off organic material such as bread, wood and other animals. Ringworm is an example of this organism.
What is fungus?
An organism that receives food and energy from another organism. Fleas, ticks and tapeworms are examples.
What is a parasite?
A local reaction of tissue to irritation that causes pain and swelling.
What is inflammation?
A disease that affects an animal that can also be passed to humans.
What is a zoonotic disease?