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Chapter 16.1
Chapter 16.1 of Biology: God's Living Creation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Animals | Living organisms that can move from place to place in their environment, mainly for the purpose of obtaining food |
| Motile | Animals that are capable of moving their bodies from place ot place |
| Vertebrates | Animals with backbones |
| Endoskeleton | An internal framework, or skeleton, contained in all vertebrates |
| Tetrapods | Vertebrates with four appendages attacked by special bones to the body at the hips and shoulders |
| Mammals | Vertebrates that are warm-blooded, have hair, have mammary glands, lungs, and a four-chambered heart |
| Hibernation | A process in which the body temperature falls to a few degrees away from freezing and the creature sleeps |
| Testes | The primary reproductive organs of the male |
| Ovaries | The primary reproductive organs of the female |
| Oviparous | Egg-laying mammals |