Mammals

What is one characteristic that mammals share with birds?

• endothermy

• cold blooded

• feathers

• 3 chambered heart

Most mammals give live birth called

• viviparous

• oviparous

• ovoviparous

Animals, like a kangaroo, give live birth to very underdeveloped babies. The babies then complete their development in the mothers pouch are called

• marsupials

• monotremes

• placentals

• reptiles

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The duck-billed platypus and the echidna are the only egg laying mammals in the group

• monotreme

• marsupial

• placental

• therapsid

The two most defining features of mammals.

• hair/fur, produces milk for their young

• warm-blooded, 4 chambered heart

• cold-blooded, 3 chambered heart

• developed brain, give live birth

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Bats, dolphins, horses, humans and dogs are all examples of which group of mammals?

• monotremes
• marsupials
• placentals

Female mammals have this unique feature...

• They have long tails

• They are ectothermic

• They have special mammary glands

• They can run very fast

Breathing organ of Mammals

• gills

• lungs

• skin

• A single lung

What was the first mammal like?

• Tree-dwelling, shrew-like insect eater

• land dwelling, lion-like, carnivore

• Tree-dwelling, shrew-like, herbivore

• land-dwelling, rhino-like, omnivore

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What two methods keep mammals warm?

• Hair

• Skin

• Blubber

• Hibernating