Study Flashcards
What is a vertebrate
An animal with a backbone
What are mammals?
Warm blooded, vertebrates that produce milk breathe with lungs and have at least some hair
True or false mammals are warm blooded
True
What is one major characteristic of a mammal
They have fur
What is wool
The very thick curly hair found on domestic sheep
What are bristles
Bristles are tough short hairs, found on almost hairless, domestic pig and they’re on heads of whales
What are whiskers used for?
The sense of touch
Why does hair help mammals?
To hide from enemies
What are hard plates?
They come from the skin and cover the animals body
What are mammary glands?
It is part of the body used to produce milk
Are mammals, rodents, marsupials, or egg layers
Marsupials
Are kangaroos koalas, a possums, numbbats Wombats and bandicoot
Marsupials, rodents, or egg layers
Marsupials
Are squirrels beavers, chinchillas, gerbils, guinea pigs, lemmings muskrats porcupines, prairie dogs and woodchucks marsupials rodents or egg lay layers
Rodents
All rodents are herbivores
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Rodents are the gnawing animals
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What is another word for front teeth?
Incisors
What disease did the rats make?
Bubonic plague
Red squirrels, gray, squirrels and flying squirrels are all tree squirrels
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Chipmunks and woodchucks are ground squirrels
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What is the most familiar squirrel in the eastern United States?
Gray squirrel
What is another word for red squirrels?
Chickarees
What does nocturnal mean?
Active only during the night
A flying squirrel is nocturnal
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