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Grade 3 Science Ch 6
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Question | Answer |
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An animal with a backbone | vertebrate |
An animal without a backbone | invertebrate |
A scientist who studies how animals behave | animal behavior scientist |
A color or pattern that allows an animal to not be seen easily in its surroundings | camouflage |
An animal that is caught and eaten by another animal | prey |
An animal that hunts and eats other animals | predator |
The process of an animal changing form as it grows | metamorphosis |
An animal that has about the same body temperature all the time is _______________. | warm-blooded |
An animal that has a body temperature that changes depending on its surroundings is _______________. | cold-blooded. |
How are animlas classified by temperature? | They are either warm-blooded or cold blooded. |
Clod-blooded animals can be classified into five groups | fish, amphibians reptiles, insects and spiders |
___________ are cold-blooded vertebrates that live in water, breathe oxygen with gills, have fins and scales, and slime covering their bodies. They reproduce by laying eggs or giving birth to live offspring. | FISH |
An _______________ ( double life)is a cold-blooded vertebrate that lives in a water when young an on land as an adult. | AMPHIBIAN |
__________are cold-blooded vertebrates that live in water and on land. They have thin, smooth, wet skin. They breathe with gills when yound but with lunggs as an adult. They reproduce by laying eggs. To through metamorphosis. | AMPHIBIANS Frogs are amphibians. |
Scientists classify animals by their __________________. | CHARACTERISTICS |
Most fish _______________ by laying eggs in the water. | Reproduce; Other fish reproduce by giving birth to live offspring. |
What way does color help fish survive? | They have a color or pattern that sllows them to no be seen easily in their surroundings. Colors also help some fish catch prey. |
Why do animals reproduce animals that are the same as the parents? | God siad each animal will reproduce after its own kind. (Genesis 1:21, 24) A fish reproduces more fish. |
Can you label the stages of an anphibian's metamorphosis? | EGG (adult frog lays its eggs in the water) - TADPOLE (has gills and a tail) - TADPOLE (loses it gills and forms lungs; loses its tail and grows legs) - ADULT |
What are two amphibian features that help them to survive and grow? | 1)Most live in wetland or forests that are damp and their skin does not dry out 2)Eyelids allow the amphibian to see outside the wter; lungs allow adults to breathe on land; Some breathe through their skin 3) Some have poison as a harmful feature. |