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Flying creatures 1

Apologia flying creatures lesson 1

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What is zoology? The study of the animals that God created
What language was the Bible originally written in? Hebrew
What is the process that is used to classify animals into groups and then name them? taxonomy
What are zoologists? People who study the animals that God created
What are vertebrates? Animals with a backbone
What are invertebrates? Animals without a backbone
Why do scientists group animals to study them? Because it is easier to learn about them
What language that never changes is used to name animals? Latin
Be able to list the groups of classification in order. (We used the silly sentence to help us remember them in order: Kings Play Chess On Fine Glass Sets.) Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
The pressing of air against you is called what? air pressure
Who is the man who did experiments that help us understand how things fly? Bernoulli
Decreasing the air pressure on top of a wing and keeping the air pressure the same on the bottom of the wing causes the wing to do what? lift
What is the force that pushes against an object causing it to slow down? drag
What is the force that is caused by a bird's wings flapping that makes the bird go faster? thrust
When something is shaped so that it can travel through the air without a lot of drag, it has what kind of shape? aerodynamic
What is the shape of a bird's wing called? airfoil
What do we call the places where animals live? habitats
What do we call it when an animal blends into its surroundings? camouflaged
What is an instinct? A built in need to do something in order to survive
When every single one of a certain kind of animals dies and no more live on earth, we say that the animal is what? extinct
The preserved remains of creatures that were once alive are called what? fossils
What do we call animals that are dying out and might become extinct? endangered species
Who was Carolus Linnaeus? He is the on who came up with the classification system that we learned about(Kingdom, phylum, etc.).
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