Science: Structures, adaptations and classifications
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| classify | to group, based on a rule
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| basic needs | all animals have the same needs in order to live. All need food, oxygen, water, and protection from the environment and predators
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| vertebrate | an animal with a backbone
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| invertebrate | an animal that does not have a backbone
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| structure | is an arrangement of parts, or organs in an animal that creates something useful for the animal (such as tentacles, eyespots, gills, a stinger, wings, lungs, etc)
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| adapt | to adjust to different conditions in the environment
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| environment | the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other things that surround and effect an organism at any time
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| exoskeleton | a skeleton that is outside the animal's body. It gives protection to the animals organs and support to the animals body
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| endoskeleton | a system of connecting bones that is inside an animal's body
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| warm-blooded | a animal has a relatively warm body temperature that stays about the same regardless of changes in the temperature of its surroundings. Birds and mammals are warm blooded
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| mammals | warm blooded vertebrates that have body hair, feed their young with milk from the mammary glands, and give birth to live young
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| mammary glands | the glands in a mammal that produce milk for the young
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| birds | warm-blooded vertebrates that lay eggs, have a body covered with feathers, and have lighweight bones, scaly leggs, wings, a beak, aqnd no teeth
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| cold-blooded | the body temperature of the animal changes as the temperature of the surroundings change
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| reptiles | cold-blooded vertebrates that usually lay eggs, such as snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles or dinosaurs. they have a covering of scales or plates and breathe through the lungs
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| amphibians | cold-blooded, smooth skinned vertebrates which can live both on land and in the water. An amphibian hatches as a tadpole in water and breathes through gills. An adult amphibian has legs, air breathing lungs and lives on land
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| fish | a vertebrate that lives in water, is cold-blooded, breathes through gills, fins and streamlined body covered in scales
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