Mammal Vocabulary

Question 1

Mammary glands

Answer 1

the milk-producing gland of women or other female mammals.

Question 2

Diaphragm

Answer 2

helps you breathe

Question 3

Endothermic

Answer 3

means they are warm blooded

Question 4

Hair

Answer 4

helps keep warm/camoflaugue

Question 5

Incisors

Answer 5

a narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth, adapted for cutting. In humans there are four incisors in each jaw.

Question 6

Canines

Answer 6

teeth for carnivores that are sharp

Question 7

Molars

Answer 7

help eat plants and swallow them

Question 8

Sexual Reproduction

Answer 8

reproduction that includes 2 parents

Question 9

Placenta

Answer 9

a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.

Question 10

Gestation period

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Anteaters / Armadillos / Sloths

Answer 11

a group of placental mammals, extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.

Question 12

Insectivores

Answer 12

a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals

Question 13

Rodents

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Rabbits / Hares / Pikas

Answer 14

the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha

Question 15

Flying Mammals

Answer 15

flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos

Question 16

Carnicores

Answer 16

they have canines to eat meat

Question 17

Trunk-Nosed Mammals

Answer 17

elephants have trunk noses

Question 18

Hoofed Mammals

Answer 18

any members of a diverse clade of primarily large mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses and rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates such as cattle, pigs, giraffes, camels, deer, and hippopotamuses.

Question 19

Cetaceans

Answer 19

a widely distributed and diverse infraorder of carnivorous, aquatic, mammals, unable to survive on land

Question 20

Manatees and Dugongs

Answer 20

mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows

Question 21

Primates

Answer 21

a mammal of the order Primates. In taxonomy, primates include two distinct lineages, strepsirrhines and haplorhines.

Question 22

Monotremes

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Marsupials

Answer 23

an infraclass of mammals living primarily in Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic, common to many species, is that most of the young are carried in a pouch