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ch16-mammals Flashcards

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living organisms that move from place to place in their environment mainly for the purpose of obtaining food

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animals

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animals that can move their bodies from place to place

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Motile

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animals that are attached to one location but can move the environment toward themselves for the purpose of trapping food

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Sessile animals

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!There are over one million known and classified species of animals alive today

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There are over one million known and classified species of animals alive today

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Genesis 1:20-25

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Genesis 1:20-25

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main form of symmetry in the animal kingdom

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Bilateral symmetry

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any way you cut it, one side will mirror the others

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Radial symmetry

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cannot divide it to make equal halves

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Asymmetry

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animals with backbones

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Vertebrates

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animals without backbones

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Invertebrates

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Vertebrates make up only about _% of all animals

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Characteristics of Vertebrates

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Spinal cord
Brain
Skull
Backbone
Notochord
Endoskeleton: skeleton is inside the animal
Tetrapods: four limbed animals

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skeleton is inside the animal (all vertebrates have this)

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Endoskeleton

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four limbed animals

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Tetrapods

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15
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All vertebrates have ____ symmetry

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bilateral

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have a protection for their spinal cord for at least part of their life

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Phylum Chordata

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vertebrates with warm blood, hair, and milk

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Mammals

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characteristics of Mammals

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Endoskeleton with seven neck vertebrae
Two pairs of limbs
Hair
Produce milk
Mammary glands: glands that produce milk
Warm blooded
Homeothermic: maintain the same body temperature
Hibernate: storing food to maintain body temperature
Lungs
Four chambered heart

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19
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glands that produce milk

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Mammary glands

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20
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storing food to maintain body temperature

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Hibernate

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their developing young receive nourishment from a placenta until birth

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Placental mammals(sexual reproduction)

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absorbs the shocks of its mother running or being bumped by an object

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Amniotic fluid

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23
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entire period of growth from fertilization to birth

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Gestation period

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24
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will be cut by the mother

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Umbilical cord

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born alive

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Viviparous

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the young are not nourished inside the mother’s body through a placenta

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Nonplacental animals

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lay eggs

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Oviparous

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28
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do not lay eggs

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Marsupials

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29
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Order Tubulidentata

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Aardvark “tube teeth”

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30
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Order Proboscidea

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Elephants:
African Bush
African forest
Asian

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made of ivory; are actually enlarged incisor teeth

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Order Sirenia

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Sea Cows
Dugongs
Manatee

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Order Monotremata; egg laying mammals

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Echidna!!
Platypus

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another name for manatees because they feed on seagrass

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spiny anteater

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Means “strange joints”

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Order Xenarthra

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means “little armored one”

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spend the majority of their lives hanging upside-down with their long, curved claws hooked around tree branches

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slowest land animal

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active during the day

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active during the night

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Order Xenarthra “strange joints”

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Armadillo
Sloth
Anteater

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Order Pholidota

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known as scaly anteater

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Marsupials

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Kangaroo
Opossum
Wombat
Koala
Numbat

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Named for pouch called “Marsupium”

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Marsupials

47
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what are Marsupials named for?

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pouch called “Marsupium”

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largest of the marsupials

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only marsupials outside of australia and the surrounding islands

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one of the best digging mammals

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The animal with the most confining diet

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“banded anteater”

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insect eating mammals

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Insectivores

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egg laying mammals

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Order Monotremata

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lightest mammal

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Etruskan shrew

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Insectivores

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Shrew
HEDGEHOG!!
Mole

56
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spines that are shorter and softer than a porcupine’s spines and always lack barb

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HEDGEHOG!!

57
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store earthworms

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flying mammals

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Order Chiroptera

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hibernate longer than any other mammal

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locating using sound

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Echolocation

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Order Chiroptera

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Order Cetacea

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whales
dolphin
porpoise
orca

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head contains a large amount of a waxy substance known as spermaceti

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Sperm whales

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known for two rows of comb-like plates (known as baleen)

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Baleen whales

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world’s largest animal

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Blue whales

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2nd most intelligent mammal

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top of the food chain

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confused with the dolphin

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Order Primates

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apes
monkeys
lemur

69
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primates without tails

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largest of the apes

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Mountain gorilla

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arboreal ape

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Smartest mammal

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Chimpanzee

73
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primates with tails

74
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New World monkeys

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Prehensile tail

75
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unusual kind of primate that live only in Madagascar and nearby islands

10th grade biology (24 decks)

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