mammals

Question 1

Mammary Glands

Answer 1

produce and secrete milk for young

Question 2

Hair

Answer 2

characteristics of mammals, keep warm in winter helps with camouflage

Question 3

Endothermic

Answer 3

dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat

Question 4

Insectivores

Answer 4

animal that eats insects

Question 5

Carnivores

Answer 5

animals that eat meat

Question 6

Omnivores

Answer 6

animals eat plants

Question 7

Ruminant herbivores

Answer 7

process plant food in a multi-chambered stomach, including one that ferments the plants

Question 8

Incisors

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Molars

Answer 9

grinding tooth at the back of a mammal’s mouth

Question 10

Canines

Answer 10

a dog.. a pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars of a mammal, often greatly enlarged in carnivores.

Question 11

Monotremes

Answer 11

primitive mammal that lays large yolky eggs and has a common opening for the urogenital and digestive systems

Question 12

Marsupials

Answer 12

lives in pouch on the mother’s belly

Question 13

Placental

Answer 13

a placental mammal.

Question 14

Chiroptera

Answer 14

can fly.. wings that are modified forelimbs like bats

Question 15

Primates

Answer 15

monkeys, apes, and human

Question 16

Xenarthra

Answer 16

no teeth or very simple teeth, sloths, and armadillos

Question 17

Rodentia

Answer 17

gnawing animals, beaver, rats, woodchuck, squirrels

Question 18

Lagomorpha

Answer 18

rabbits and hares, long incisors

Question 19

Proboscidea

Answer 19

elephants, flexible trunk to gather food and water

Question 20

Sirenia

Answer 20

manatees, flippers for swimming, herbivores

Question 21

Perissodactyla

Answer 21

hoofed animals horses, zebras, rhinos

Question 22

Artiodactyla

Answer 22

hoofed mammals two or four twos deer, cattle

Question 23

Cetacea

Answer 23

whales, dolphins, flippers for swimming, blowhole

Question 24

Therapsids

Answer 24

extinct reptile of a Permian and Triassic order, the members of which are related to the ancestors of mammals