Mammal vocab

Question 1

Mammary Glands

Answer 1

Produce milk

Question 2

Endothermic

Answer 2

Inside heat

Question 3

Insectivore

Answer 3

Eat insects

Question 4

Herbivore

Answer 4

Plant eater

Question 5

Carnivore

Answer 5

Meat eaters

Question 6

Omnivore

Answer 6

Eat plants and animals

Question 7

Ruminant

Answer 7

Ruminants are mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through bacterial actions.

Question 8

Incisors

Answer 8

tooth for cutting

Question 9

Canine teeth

Answer 9

pointy teeth

Question 10

Molars

Answer 10

teeth in the back of mouth

Question 11

Internal Fertilization

Answer 11

Egg and sperm together to produce a child

Question 12

Gestation period

Answer 12

is the time in which a fetus develops, beginning with fertilization and ending at birth

Question 13

Placenta

Answer 13

nutrient sac that helps baby grow

Question 14

monotremes

Answer 14

Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials and placental mammals.

Question 15

Marsupials

Answer 15

Kangroos and things that have a pouch

Question 16

Chiroptera

Answer 16

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight

Question 17

Primates

Answer 17

Animals like monkeys, they have thumbs

Question 18

Xenarthra

Answer 18

group of placental animals, sloths and armadillas

Question 19

Rodentia

Answer 19

Rodents are mammals of the order Rodentia, characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

Question 20

Lagomorpha

Answer 20

They are bunnies and rabits

Question 21

Carnivora

Answer 21

tigers, lions, and big cats

Question 22

Proboscidea

Answer 22

Elephants oh my!

Question 23

Sirenia

Answer 23

Dugong and manatees

Question 24

Perissodactyla

Answer 24

Rhinos and zebras

Question 25

Artiodactyla

Answer 25

Horses

Question 26

Cetacea

Answer 26

large sea animals

Question 27

Therapsids

Answer 27

dinosaurs