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The Animal Kingdom
6th Grade Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reptiles | cold-blooded animals covered with scales or horny plates that breathe through their lungs |
| structural adaptations | body parts or body coverings animals are born with that help them survive |
| mimicry | an adaptation that fools other animals with sounds, behaviors, or colors |
| vertebrates | animals with backbones |
| exoskeletons | hard coverings that protect the bodies of some animals without backbones |
| camouflage | a structural adaptation that protects animals by helping them look like their environment |
| amphibians | cold-blooded animals with backbones that spend part of their lives in water and on land |
| squid | an ocean animal with a long body, ten arms, internal shell, and a pair of rounded fins |
| predators | animals that hunt and eat smaller, more helpless animals |
| mammals | warm-blooded animals that feed their young with milk, have backbones, and are covered with hair |
| burrowing | digging a hole |
| invertebrates | animals without backbones |
| behavior adaptations | natural behaviors animals are born with that help them survive |
| flexible | something that bends easily |
| perch | a resting place |
| internal | on the inside |