Vocab Lesson 5

Question 1

Fish

Answer 1

a vertebrate whose body temp is determined by the temp of the enviroment and that lives in the water and has fins

Question 2

Cartilage

Answer 2

A connective tissue that is more flexible than bone and that protects the ends of bones and keeps them from rubbing together

Question 3

Amphibian

Answer 3

able to live both on land and in water

Question 4

Reptile

Answer 4

An ectothermic vertebrate that lays eggs and has lungs and scaly skin.

Question 5

Bird

Answer 5

An endothermic vertebrate that is covered in feathers, breathes through lungs and lays hard-shelled eggs.

Question 6

Mammal

Answer 6

Animals that have hair and produce milk for their young

Question 7

Mammary glands

Answer 7

Specialized organs in mammals that produce milk to nourish the young

Question 8

Monotremes

Answer 8

Egg laying mammals

Question 9

Marsupial

Answer 9

pouched mammal (like a kangaroo)

Question 10

Placenta mammals

Answer 10

Mammals that nourish their unborn offspring through a placenta (cord) inside the female mammal.

Question 11

Placenta

Answer 11

A structure that allows an embryo to be nourished with the mother’s blood supply