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Animals-Vocabulary2
Animals-Vocabulary-Ch. 2-Bray-3rd.grade
Question | Answer |
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To receive traits from parents | inherit |
Body features an animal inherits or something that animal does | trait |
Animals that have hair or fur | mammal |
Animals that have feathers, 2 legs, and wings | birds |
Animals that begin life in water and move onto land as adults | amphibian |
Body parts that take in oxygen from water | gills |
Animals that live their whole lives in water | fish |
Small, thin, flat plates that help protect fish | scales |
land animals that have dry skin covered by scales | reptiles |
Behaviors and animal knows how to do | instinct |
Deep sleep | hibernate |
Travel from one place to live in another | migrate |
A natural disguise-blends into surroundings | camouflage |
An imitation of another animal or object | mimicry |
Something that is gone forever | extinct |
A name that identifies a specific kind of organism | species |
In danger of becoming extinct | endangered |
On the way to becoming endangered or extinct | threatened |
Something that has lasted from a living thing that died long ago | fossil |