Vertebrates

What is a vertebrate?

• an animal without a backbone

• an animal with a backbone

There are five categories of vertebrates. Which one is NOT a vertebrate?

• Mammals

• Birds

• Arthropods

• Reptiles

These animals are warm-blooded. They have hair or fur on their bodies. Their young do not hatch from eggs.

• amphibans

• reptiles

• mammals

• fish

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These animals are cold-blooded. They breathe with gills when young, but they grow lungs when they become adults.

• birds

• reptiles

• amphibians

• mammals

My body is warm and covered in feathers. I lay eggs which hatch into chickens. What am I?

• Reptile

• Amphibian

• Mammal

• Bird

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I am covered in dry scales and I lay eggs.  What am I?

• Mammal
• Fish
• Amphibian
• Reptile

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What class do you belong in?

• Birds

• Mammals

• Reptile

• Amphibian

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What do mammals use to breathe with?

• Gills

• Skin

• Lungs

• Blood

How do fish breathe?

• Through their gills

• Through their skin

• Through their fins

• Through their feathers

What word means  body temperature changes when the outside temperature changes?

• cold blooded
• warm blooded
• classify
• vertebrate