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Birds and Mammals Test

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Diaphragm: location in the body of a mammal and its function.
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What is preening? Why do birds do this?
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What is echolocation and which mammals use it?
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cetacea
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How many chambers are there in a bird ear? Names the chambers.
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Name the characteristics of mammals.
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insectivora
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Contrast precocial and altricial young.
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What is the syrinx?
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From where did birds evolved? What is Archaeopteryx?
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What is an ornithologist?
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What do the following terms mean: oviparous vs. ovoviviparous vs. viviparous. Give examples of each.
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Compare & contrast raptors (hawks, eagles, etc.) and owls.
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What are marsupials and name some examples.
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perissodactyla
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Describe feathers according to type, functions, and structure.
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What are pinnipeds?
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Contrast the types of teeth, location in the mouth, and their job.
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Migration: what is it? Why do birds do it?
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How are birds different from reptiles?
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The organ that produces bird song.
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Birds have feathers, hollow bones and a furcula.
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A scientist who studies birds.
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horses, zebras, tapirs
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Precocial young can fend for themselves as soon as they hatch but altricial young are naked and helpless.
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The seasonal movement of birds from one habitat to another. They do it so they don't have to hibernate.
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shrews, hedgehogs, moles
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Contour feathers provide coloration and streamlined shape. downy feathers provide insulation. flight feathers assist in flight.
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whales, dolphins,
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Mammary glands, hair, endothermy, 4 chambered heart, single jawbone, specialized teeth.
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echolocation is the use of waves to determine the size and distance of prey. bats and dolphins use it.
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Marsupials are mammals that give birth to underdeveloped young and then keep nourishing them in a pouch. kangaroos, koalas, opossums.
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Raptors hunt in the day and have less spread out feathers and owls hunt an night and have spread out feathers.
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oviparous mammals lay amniotic eggs, ovoviviparous animals have an egg in the mother and either lay it and the young hatches shortly or the egg hatches in her. viviparous animals develop a fetus inside the mother without an egg.
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It is beneath the rib cage and draws air into the lungs.
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Early reptiles, an early creature that had both bird and reptile characteristics.
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aquatic carnivores
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When birds rub their beaks on their feathers and coat them in oil. to waterproof themselves.
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incisors are for cutting, canines are for ripping, premolars are for shredding, molars are for crushing.
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What is the largest part of the mammalian brain?
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Which chamber of the stomach acts as a fermentation chamber?
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Are mammals endothermic or ectothermic?
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squirrels, chipmunks and rats
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rabbits, hares and pikas
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dogs, cats, coons, hyenas, otters
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manatees and dugongs
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'phants
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pigs, deer, camels/ ungulates
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sloths, anteaters and armadillos

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