9th grade bird and mammal test
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | Endothermy, feathers, beak, oviparity, wings, hollow bones, air sacs,
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| How many chambers are there in a bird ear? Names the chambers. | show 🗑
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| How are birds different from reptiles? | show 🗑
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| show | Endothermic
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| show | Early reptiles, an early creature that had both bird and reptile characteristics.
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| What is the importance of the bird bone structure? | show 🗑
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| show | The crop stores and moistens food and the gizzard is where food is physically crushed.
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| show | Precocial young can fend for themselves as soon as they hatch but altricial young are naked and helpless.
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| show | The organ that produces bird song.
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| show | Contour feathers provide coloration and streamlined shape. downy feathers provide insulation. flight feathers assist in flight.
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| What are the functions of the posterior air sacs? | show 🗑
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| show | The seasonal movement of birds from one habitat to another. They do it so they don't have to hibernate.
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| show | A scientist who studies birds.
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| show | When birds rub their beaks on their feathers and coat them in oil. to waterproof themselves.
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| Compare & contrast raptors (hawks, eagles, etc.) and owls. | show 🗑
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| show | Mammary glands, hair, endothermy, 4 chambered heart, single jawbone, specialized teeth.
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| show | monotremes are mammals that lay eggs. Platypuses and echidnas.
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| show | Marsupials are mammals that give birth to underdeveloped young and then keep nourishing them in a pouch. kangaroos, koalas, opossums.
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| What are placentals and name some examples. | show 🗑
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| show | A blood-richstructure that feeds young in placental mammals.
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| What is gestation period? | show 🗑
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| show | Organs that once had a purpose but as the organism evolves, they lost their purpose. in humans, the appendix and body hair are vestigial.
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| show | It is beneath the rib cage and draws air into the lungs.
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| show | incisors are for cutting, canines are for ripping, premolars are for shredding, molars are for crushing.
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| What do the following terms mean: oviparous vs. ovoviviparous vs. viviparous. Give examples of each. | show 🗑
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| What is echolocation and which mammals use it? | show 🗑
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| What is baleen? Who has it & why? | show 🗑
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| show | aquatic carnivores
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| What is the rumen? What advantage does it give some mammals? | show 🗑
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| show | cecum
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| show | endothermic
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| show | cerebrum
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| show | sloths, anteaters and armadillos
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| lagomorpha | show 🗑
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| show | squirrels, chipmunks and rats
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| primates | show 🗑
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| chiroptera | show 🗑
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| insectivora | show 🗑
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| carnivora | show 🗑
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| show | pigs, deer, camels/ ungulates
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| show | horses, zebras, tapirs
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| cetacea | show 🗑
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| sirenia | show 🗑
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| show | 'phants
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