ch16-mammals

Question 1

living organisms that move from place to place in their environment mainly for the purpose of obtaining food

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animals

Question 2

animals that can move their bodies from place to place

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Motile

Question 3

animals that are attached to one location but can move the environment toward themselves for the purpose of trapping food

Answer 3

Sessile animals

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!There are over one million known and classified species of animals alive today

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There are over one million known and classified species of animals alive today

Question 5

Genesis 1:20-25

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Genesis 1:20-25

Question 6

main form of symmetry in the animal kingdom

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Bilateral symmetry

Question 7

any way you cut it, one side will mirror the others

Answer 7

Radial symmetry

Question 8

cannot divide it to make equal halves

Answer 8

Asymmetry

Question 9

animals with backbones

Answer 9

Vertebrates

Question 10

animals without backbones

Answer 10

Invertebrates

Question 11

Vertebrates make up only about _% of all animals

Answer 11

3

Question 12

Characteristics of Vertebrates

Answer 12

Spinal cord
Brain
Skull
Backbone
Notochord
Endoskeleton: skeleton is inside the animal
Tetrapods: four limbed animals

Question 13

skeleton is inside the animal (all vertebrates have this)

Answer 13

Endoskeleton

Question 14

four limbed animals

Answer 14

Tetrapods

Question 15

All vertebrates have ____ symmetry

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bilateral

Question 16

have a protection for their spinal cord for at least part of their life

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Phylum Chordata

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vertebrates with warm blood, hair, and milk

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Mammals

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characteristics of Mammals

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Endoskeleton with seven neck vertebrae
Two pairs of limbs
Hair
Produce milk
Mammary glands: glands that produce milk
Warm blooded
Homeothermic: maintain the same body temperature
Hibernate: storing food to maintain body temperature
Lungs
Four chambered heart

Question 19

glands that produce milk

Answer 19

Mammary glands

Question 20

storing food to maintain body temperature

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Hibernate

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their developing young receive nourishment from a placenta until birth

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Placental mammals(sexual reproduction)

Question 22

absorbs the shocks of its mother running or being bumped by an object

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Amniotic fluid

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entire period of growth from fertilization to birth

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Gestation period

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will be cut by the mother

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Umbilical cord

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born alive

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Viviparous

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the young are not nourished inside the mother’s body through a placenta

Answer 26

Nonplacental animals

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lay eggs

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Oviparous

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do not lay eggs

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Marsupials

Question 29

Order Tubulidentata

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Aardvark “tube teeth”

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Order Proboscidea

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Elephants: African Bush African forest Asian

Question 31

made of ivory; are actually enlarged incisor teeth

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Tusks

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Order Sirenia

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Sea Cows Dugongs Manatee

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Order Monotremata; egg laying mammals

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Echidna!! Platypus

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another name for manatees because they feed on seagrass

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Sea Cows

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spiny anteater

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Echidna

Question 36

Means “strange joints”

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Order Xenarthra

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means “little armored one”

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Armadillo

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spend the majority of their lives hanging upside-down with their long, curved claws hooked around tree branches

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Sloth

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slowest land animal

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Ai sloth

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active during the day

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Diurnal

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active during the night

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Nocturnal

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Order Xenarthra “strange joints”

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Armadillo Sloth Anteater

Question 43

Order Pholidota

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Pangolin

Question 44

known as scaly anteater

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Pangolin

Question 45

Marsupials

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Kangaroo Opossum Wombat Koala Numbat

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Named for pouch called “Marsupium”

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Marsupials

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what are Marsupials named for?

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pouch called “Marsupium”

Question 48

largest of the marsupials

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Kangaroo

Question 49

only marsupials outside of australia and the surrounding islands

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Opossum

Question 50

one of the best digging mammals

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Wombat

Question 51

The animal with the most confining diet

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Koala

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“banded anteater”

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Numbat

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insect eating mammals

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Insectivores

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egg laying mammals

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Order Monotremata

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lightest mammal

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Etruskan shrew

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Insectivores

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Shrew HEDGEHOG!! Mole

Question 56

spines that are shorter and softer than a porcupine’s spines and always lack barb

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HEDGEHOG!!

Question 57

store earthworms

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Mole

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flying mammals

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Order Chiroptera

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hibernate longer than any other mammal

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Bats

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locating using sound

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Echolocation

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Order Chiroptera

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Bats

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Order Cetacea

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whales dolphin porpoise orca

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head contains a large amount of a waxy substance known as spermaceti

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Sperm whales

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known for two rows of comb-like plates (known as baleen)

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Baleen whales

Question 64

world’s largest animal

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Blue whales

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2nd most intelligent mammal

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Dolphin

Question 66

top of the food chain

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Orca

Question 67

confused with the dolphin

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Porpoise

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Order Primates

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apes monkeys lemur

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primates without tails

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Apes

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largest of the apes

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Mountain gorilla

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arboreal ape

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Gibbon

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Smartest mammal

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Chimpanzee

Question 73

primates with tails

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Monkeys

Question 74

New World monkeys

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Prehensile tail

Question 75

unusual kind of primate that live only in Madagascar and nearby islands

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Lemurs