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Animals word list
Sec. 3.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| amphibian | a vertebrate that lives part of its life in water and part of its life on land |
| animal | a kingdom of multicellular living organisms able to move and respond to stimuli |
| antenna | one of a pair of feelers on an arthropod's head used for feeling, tasting, and smelling |
| bird | a vertebrate that has both feathers and wings |
| cartilage | a hard flexible tissue |
| cocoon | a silk envelope that an insect larva forms about itself and in which it spends the pupa stage |
| cold-blooded | an animal having a body temperature the same as the surrounding environment |
| egg | the female sex cells |
| exoskeleton | an outside skeleton found on arthropods |
| feather | the light outgrowths covering the body of a bird |
| fish | a vertebrate that lives its whole life in water |
| gills | the organs on fish that get oxygen from the water and remove carbon dioxide from the blood |
| hibernation | a resting state that helps animals survive the winter |
| insect | an animal that has an exoskeleton, three body segments, three pairs of legs, usually two sets of wings, a pair of antennae, and compound eyes |