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B7 - Strangest Animals

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  • What characteristics distinguish reptiles from the other classes?
    They may live in land or in the water, they breathe through their lungs, they lay eggs on land, they have scales.
  • When is an animal considered "oviparous"?
    When they produce eggs that develop and hatch outside the mother's body.
  • What characteristics distinguish fish from the other classes?
    They have gill to extract oxygen from the water, they are ectothermic animals, they lay eggs and have scales.
  • Give 02 examples of amphibians.
  • What differs vertebrate and invertebrate animals?
    Vertebrate animals have a backbone.
  • When is an animal considered "viviparous"?
    When they give birth to live young.
  • Whats the difference between endothermic and and ectothermic animals?
    Endothermic animals have warm body temperatures. Ectothermic animals are cold-blooded.
  • How do vertebrate animals breathe?
    By taking oxygen out of the air or water.
  • What are the 5 classes of vertebrate animals?
    Reptiles, amphibians, mammals, fish and birds.
  • What characteristics distinguish amphibians from the other classes?
    They live in or out of the water. They can breathe through their skin or lungs.
  • What are the different types of skin covering?
    Scales, feather or hair.
  • Give 03 examples of mammals.
  • Give 03 examples of reptiles.
  • Give 03 examples of fish.
  • What limbs to vertebrate animals use to move?
    Legs, wings and fins.
  • Give 02 examples of invertebrate animals.
  • When is an animal considered "ovoviviparous"?
    When they produce eggs with enclosing membranes that are hatched inside the mother's body.
  • Give 03 examples of birds.