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

Which are the 5 groups of vertebrate animals?

• Mammals, fish, amphibians and sharks
• Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians
• Lions, tuna, eagle, crocodile and frog
• Humans, fish, birds and reptiles

What animals breathe with their lungs?

• Mammals and birds
• Fish and chips
• Mammals, birds, reptiles and adult amphibians
• Humans, birds and sharks

Which of these animals breathe through their gills?

• Fish
• Fish and baby amphibians
• Mammals, adult amphibians, reptiles and birds

Which animal can breathe with their lungs and also through their moist skin?

• Amphibians
• Fish
• Reptiles

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?

• ectothermic

• endothermic

• classify

• vertebrate

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

• ectothermic

• endothermic

• classify

• vertebrate

How do fish breathe?

• Through their gills

• Through their skin

• Through their fins

• Through their feathers