LW Unit 1 Vocabulary

The study of animal behavior, structure, function, and history

• Zoology

• Entomology

• Primatology

• Humanology

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Organisms that have a backbone.

• Invertebrate

• Vertical

• Vertebrate

• Exoskeleton

What is an Animal?

• Animals are organisms that make their food using the suns rays.

• Animals are furry organisms with claws, paws, and a tail.

• Animals are multicellular organisms with muscles, that can move, and affect the world around them.

• Animals are nonliving organisms.

Group of animals with segmented bodies, jointed legs, and external skeletons (exoskeletons).

• Fish

• Mammals

• Reptiles

• Insects

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Group of animals that are air-breathing vertebrates that are cold-blooded, typically lay eggs and have scales covering part or all of their body.

• Reptiles

• Fish

• Mammals

• Amphibians

Group of warm-blooded vertebrate animals, that lay eggs, and whose fore-limbs have been modified into wings.

• Mammals

• Birds

• Fish

• Reptiles

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Member of the group of vertebrate animals in which the young are nourished with milk from the mother.

• Reptiles

• FIsh

• Mammals

• Birds

Which is a characteristic of Fish?

• Claws

• Gills

• Fur

• Scales

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The branch of zoology dealing with the scientific study of insects.

• Ichthyology

• Herpetology

• Primatology

• Entomology

The branch of zoology dealing with the scientific study of amphibians and reptiles.

• Herpetology

• Mammalogy

• Entomology

• Ichthyology

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