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1
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What are animals with a backbone?

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Vertebrates

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What is an internal skeleton that most vertebrates contain?

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Endoskeleton

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What are animals without a backbone?

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Invertebrates

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What is the largest mammal and the largest animal that has ever existed?

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Blue whale

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What is the term for an animal that can regulate its body temperature by internal mechanism?

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Warm-blooded

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What is the term for the state in which animals reduce their body temperature close to the freezing point?

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Hibernation

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What are specially designed glands that provide milk with the perfect balance of nutrients for young mammals?

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Mammary Glands

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What is the advantage that hair provides an animal to help it blend into its environment?

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Camouflage

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What is the scientific name for the sensitive whiskers on dogs, cats, walruses, and other mammals?

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Vibrisae

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What are the teeth at the front of the mouth used for cutting and biting?

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Incisors

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What are the long, pointed teeth toward the front of the mouth used for tearing?

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Canines

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What are the flat teeth toward the back of the mouth used for grinding?

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Molars

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What are animals that eat primarily meat?

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Carnivores

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What are animals that eat primarily plants?

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Herbivores

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What are animals that eat both vegetation and meat?

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Omnivores

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What are the only animals that have a diaphragm?

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Mammals

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What is the term for the thing that contains amniotic fluid which surrounds the developing young?

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Amniotic Sac

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What is the order into which sloths and anteaters fall?

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Xenarthra

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19
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What is the slowest mammal?

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Sloth

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What term means “capable of grabbing”?

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Prehensile

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What animal has the ability to roll into a ball when it feels threatened?

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Armadillo

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What is the order from which mammals feed mainly on insects, but sometimes other small animals or vegetation?

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Insectivora

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What is the only flying mammal?

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Bat

24
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What order are bats found in?

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Chiroptera

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What is a group of bats called?

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Colony

26
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What is the design that bats have that allows them to emit a high-pitched sound which hits a nearby object and then bounces back to the bat?

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Echolocation system

27
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What is a primate with a tail?

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Monkey

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What type of monkey is found in Africa and Asia and has closely-spaced, comma-shaped nostrils?

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Old World monkeys

29
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What are two examples of Old World monkeys?

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Baboon and Macaques

30
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What are primates without tails?

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Apes

31
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What is the scientific term for cats?

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Felines

32
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What is the only true carnivorous family because none of them eat plants?

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Cats

33
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What is the purpose of stripes on a tiger?

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Camouflage

34
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What type of whale has comb-like plates crossing their mouths that allow them to catch food?

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Baleen whales

35
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What is the largest animal to have ever lived?

A

Blue whale

36
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What is the largest group of mammals?

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Rodents

37
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What is the scientific term for beaver dams?

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Lodges

38
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What is the largest rodent?

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Capybara

39
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What order are rabbits, hares, and pikas part of?

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Lagomorphs

40
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What are mammals with hooves called?

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Ungulates

41
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What is the scientific term for animals that chew the cud?

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Ruminants

42
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What is the tallest living animal?

A

Giraffe

43
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What incredibly aggressive animal is considered one of Africa’s deadliest animals?

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Hippopotamus

44
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What structures are bony core surrounded by a hollow sheath of hardened skin?

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Horns

45
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What structures are dead bone without a covering?

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Antlers

46
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What order are dugongs and manatees a part of?

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Sirenia

47
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What sirenian has a forked tail, like a whale’s?

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Dugong

48
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What is the only species in the order Tubulidentata (“Tube-like Teeth”)?

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Aardvark

49
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What are the largest hopping mammals?

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Kangaroos

50
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What is a pouchless marsupial whose favorite food is termites?

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Numbat

51
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What animal feeds almost exclusively on eucalyptus leaves?

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Koala

52
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What are the only marsupials found outside Australia and its surrounding islands?

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Opossums

53
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What marsupials are known for their ability to play dead?

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Opossums

54
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What is the term for animals who reproduce by laying eggs?

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Oviparous

55
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What oviparous mammal has a bill that resembles a duck’s bill?

A

Platypus

56
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What is the term for when the number of animals in a species drops to a point that the animal may become extinct?

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Endangered

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