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Fins, scales, and gills.
What are the three main observable features of fish?
Body temperature is determined by the water temperature.
What is ectothermic?
Fish detect the movement of other fish by using this structure
What is the lateral line?
Characteristics include a skeleton of cartilage, smooth skin, and a notochord – but no backbone.
What are jawless fish?
Bony fish have a swim bladder to help them stay buoyant. Cartilagenous fish have this to help them float.
What is an oily liver?
This process allows the larval tadpoles to develop into frogs.
What is metamorphosis?
This characteristic allows amphibians to take in both water and oxygen without drinking or the use of their lungs.
What is thin, moist skin?
These two characteristics have allowed reptiles to live their life entirely on land.
What is the amniotic egg (egg with shell) and thick skin providing a watertight layer?
Lacking this structure, amphibians are forced to lay their eggs in a very wet environment.
What is a shell?
Beneficial to humans, these two substances have been produced from the skin of amphibians.
What are antibiotics and painkillers?
These provide birds with a layer of insulation to keep them from losing body heat.
What are down feathers?
Examining these structures will help determine what a bird eats.
What are beaks?
Using their wings, birds push against air to do these two things.
What is taking off and landing?
Chicks of this type are fully active after hatching and are covered with downy feathers.
What is precocial?
Observing these will help determine where a bird lives.
What are a birds feet?
These two characteristics make it easy to identify mammals from other animals.
What are fur and mammary glands?
The length of time young develops inside a female.
What is the gestation period?
Body temperature remains fairly constant and is controlled internally.
What is endothermic?
The diet of a mammal is determined by these.
What are teeth?
The young of these mammals are born immature and complete their development in their mothers pouch.
What are marsupials?
These are the Kingdom and Phylum of all vertebrate organisms.
What are animals and chordata?
Mammals are separated into three groups based on this characteristic.
What is how the young develop?
These two groups of organisms lack any visible limbs.
What are snakes and caecilians?
This reproductive feature is one similarity between reptiles and birds.
What is the amniotic egg?
The mammal that won the Belmont Stakes – the third race in a series known as the Triple Crown.
Who is Birdstone?