Animal Kingdom Glossary
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| tail | a part of the body of an animal attached to the base of the back
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| wing | one of the movable, usually long and flat, parts on either side of the body of a bird, insect, or bat that it uses for flying
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| feather | one of the long, light objects that cover a bird’s body
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| beak | the hard, pointed part of a bird’s mouth
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| gill | the organ through which fish and other water creatures breathe
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| lung | either of the two breathing organs in the chest of people and some animals
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| fur | the soft, thick hair that covers the bodies of some animals
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| tentacle | a long, thin, arm of some sea animals, such as the octopus and jellyfish
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| scale | any of the thin pieces of hard skin covering the bodies of fish, snakes, and lizards
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| fin | a thin, wing-shaped part of a fish that helps it to swim
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| shell | the hard outer covering of some animals
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| exoskeleton | a hard outer layer that covers and protects the body of some animals such as insects
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| mammal | Vertebrate. Most have fur or hair. They breath with lungs
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| bird | Vertebrate. Thet have wings, feathers and beak. They breath with lungs
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| fish | Vertebrate. They have scales and fins. They breath with gills.
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| amphibian | Vertebrate. They have moist skin. They live on land and in water.
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| reptile | Vertebrate. They have scales. Some of them have legs.
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| vertebrate | Animal with a backbone.
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| invertebrate | Animal without a backbone.
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| arthropods | Invertebrate. Insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans.
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| mollusks | Invertebrate. Soft body. They can have a shell.
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| omnivore | Animals that eat animal and plants.
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| carnivore | Animals that eat other animals.
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| herbivore | Animals that eat plants.
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