SSA Vocabulary

have scales covering their bodies, most hatch from eggs, breathes with lungs, cold-blooded and are vertebrates

• bird characteristics

• mammal characteristics

• amphibian characteristics

• reptile characteristics

have wings, feathers, beaks, lay eggs, breathe with lungs, warm-blooded and are vertebrates

• bird characteristics

• mammal characteristics

• amphibian characteristics

• reptile characteristics

start life in water, smooth moist skin, start with gills that turn into lungs, cold-blooded and are vertebrates

• bird characteristics

• mammal characteristics

• amphibian characteristics

• reptile characteristics

a stage in the life cycle of an insect that occurs between the larva and adult stage

• metamorphosis

• larva

• pupa

an early stage in the life cycle of an organism that will undergo complete metamorphosis

• metamorphosis

• larva

• pupa

to receive a characteristic or trait passed down from a parent to an offspring

• vertebrate

• inherit

• invertebrate

an animal that has a backbone

• vertebrate

• inherit

• invertebrate

an animal that obtains nutrients by eating other animals

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

an animal that obtains nutrients from plants

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

an organism that obtains nutrients from both plants and animals

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore