Teaching Science and History

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

animals with backbones

Question 2

mammals

Answer 2

warm-blooded vertebrates that produce milk, breathe with lungs, and have at least some hair. Most have four limbs and give birth to live young

Question 3

social animals

Answer 3

animals that live in small or large groups of the same kind. they protect each other and, if they are predators, cooperate in bringing down prey

Question 4

designed to maintain a relatively constant body temperature

Answer 4

mammals

Question 5

warm-blooded

Answer 5

mammals

Question 6

the soft dense hair that God gave many mammals as a warm covering is called

Answer 6

fur

Question 7

thick curly hair found on domestic sheep

Answer 7

wool

Question 8

hedgehog and porcupine and echidna hair

Answer 8

spines or quills

Question 9

tough short hair found on the almost hairless domestic pig and here and there on the heads of whales

Answer 9

Bristles

Question 10

hair used for the sense of touch

Answer 10

whiskers

Question 11

whales and dolphins have a layer of fat called ____ that keeps them warm and helps them float

Answer 11

blubber

Question 12

special structures in the skin that are produced in the same manner as hair and are often used for protection and defense

Answer 12

horns, claws, nails, or hoofs

Question 13

come from the skin and cover the anima’s body, providing a very efficient means of protection

Answer 13

hard plates

Question 14

produce milk only as long as the young are nursing and need the milk

Answer 14

mammary glands

Question 15

give birth to live offspring which spend very little time inside the mother’s body

Answer 15

marsupials

Question 16

the only mammals that are not born alive are

Answer 16

duckbill platypus and the echidna

Question 17

the largest group of mammals

Answer 17

the rodents

Question 18

the smallest rodents

Answer 18

mice

Question 19

the largest rodents

Answer 19

capybaras

Question 20

all rodents eat

Answer 20

plants

Question 21

herbivores

Answer 21

eat plants

Question 22

the gnawing animals

Answer 22

rodents

Question 23

front teeth

Answer 23

incisors

Question 24

an animal that has been tamed and raised for man’s use for many generations

Answer 24

domestic animal

Question 25

1300s to 1600s over 60 million people through Europe died from this disease

Answer 25

bubonic plague

Question 26

active only at night

Answer 26

nocturnal

Question 27

live on a diet of ants and termites

Answer 27

giant anteater, aardvark, pangolin

Question 28

shrews, moles, and hedgehogs are called

Answer 28

insectivores

Question 29

busy 24 hours a day

Answer 29

shrews

Question 30

spends almost all of its life underground

Answer 30

moles

Question 31

the only mammals that fly

Answer 31

bats

Question 32

the only egg-laying mammal

Answer 32

echidna and platypuses

Question 33

used for snipping and bitting

Answer 33

incisors

Question 34

fangs for stabbing and tearing

Answer 34

canines

Question 35

crushing

Answer 35

premolars

Question 36

crushing and grinding

Answer 36

molars

Question 37

dogs, domestic or wild are called

Answer 37

canines