Unit 2 - Science Flashcards

1
Q

an animal that eats other animals

A

carnivore

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2
Q

an animal that eats dead and decaying plants and animals

A

decomposer

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3
Q

an animal that eats plants

A

herbivore

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4
Q

a behavior or trait that is inherited from the parents

A

innate

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5
Q

anything an animal knows how to do without learning it first

A

instinct

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6
Q

an animal that eats both plants and animals

A

omnivore

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7
Q

a behavior that animals do NOT do by instinct

A

learned behavior

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8
Q

a caterpillar puts itself into a cocoon

A

innate behavior

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9
Q

animals learn new things by experience and from _____ ______

A

another animal

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10
Q

most _____ _______ help animals with getting food and reproduicing

A

innate behaviors

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11
Q

stage of incomplete insect metamorphosis

A
  1. egg
  2. nymph
  3. adult
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12
Q

stages for complete insect metamorphosis

A
  1. egg
  2. larva
  3. pupa
  4. adult
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13
Q

compound eyes
six legs
THREE body segments

What has these?

A

insects

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14
Q

____ has a soft body

A

mollusk

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15
Q

____ has a simple skeleton, no muscles, and no brain

A

sponge

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16
Q

_____ has an endoskeleton and usually a spiny skin

A

echinoderm

17
Q

______ is a skeleton inside the body

A

endoskeleton

18
Q

____ is a skeleton outside the body

A

exoskeleton

19
Q

______ is an animal with two body segments and eight legs

A

arachnid

20
Q

a ________ has body segments, simple body systems, and no hard outer shell or skeleton, and NO legs

A

annelid

21
Q

a _____ is an animal that has an exoskeleton, body segments, and jointed legs

A

arthropod

22
Q

a _____ is a developing mammal inside the mother

A

embryo

23
Q

a ___-blooded animal is able keep the inside of the animal warm even if the temperature is old on the outside

A

warm

24
Q

when an animal is ___=blooded, the inside of the animal will be the temperature of the air or water it is in

A

cold

25
Q

______ feed their young milk from the mother

A

mammal

26
Q

______ are covered in hard, dry scales and breathe with lungs

A

reptiles

27
Q

_____ breath through both lungs and gills

A

amphibians

28
Q

_______ incubate their eggs

A

birds

29
Q

______ spend part of their lives on land and part of their lives in water

A

amphibians

30
Q

_______ have babies called fry

A

fish

31
Q

__________ breath through gills and have fins

A

fish

32
Q

____ have wings and beaks or bills

A

birds