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AnimalClassification Jeopardy
Vocabulary Animal Classes Invertebrates Vertebrates Miscellaneous
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Animals that have spines are called this.
Vocabulary 100
What are vertebrates?
Animals that produce their own body heat are called warm-blooded, or
this.
Vocabulary 200
What is endothermic?
An animal that has an internal body temperature
that is dependent on its surroundings is called cold-
blooded, or this.
Vocabulary 300
What is ectothermic?
Animals that give live birth to their young are
called this.
Vocabulary 400
What is viviparous?
Animals that lay eggs are called this.
Vocabulary 500
What is oviparous?
These endothermic vertebrates produce milk
for their offspring.
Animal Classes 100
What are mammals (class: Mammalia)?
All of these endothermic vertebrates have
feathers and wings.
Animal Classes 200
What are birds (class: Aves)?
Some of these scaly, ectothermic vertebrates spend most of their time in the water while others
live only on land.
Animal Classes 300
What are reptiles (class: Reptilia)?
Most of these ectothermic vertebrates go through an
aquatic larval stage before emerging to live on
land.
Animal Classes 400
What are amphibians (class: Amphibia)?
These ectothermic vertebrates have gills,
fins and a skeleton made of cartilage.
Animal Classes 500
What are cartilaginous fish (class: Chondrichthyes)?
All invertebrates share this characteristic that sets them apart from
vertebrates.
Invertebrates 100
What is the lack of a spine?
This is one example of an invertebrate that has
three body parts, three pairs of legs and a pair of
antennae.
Invertebrates 200
What is [any type of insect]?
This is one example of an invertebrate that has
two body parts, four pairs of legs and a pair
of pedipalps.
Invertebrates 300
What is [any type of arachnid, including spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks]?
Although their name means “one thousand feet,” none of these
invertebrates have more than 800 feet.
Invertebrates 400
What are millipedes?
Insects, arachnids and crustaceans all belong
to this phylum.
Invertebrates 500
What is Arthropoda?
Fish use gills to extract this vital element from
the water.
Vertebrates 100
What is oxygen?
This is one thing amphibians absorb through their skin.
Vertebrates 200
What is moisture?or
What is oxygen?
These are two differences between the appearances
of snakes and lizards.
Vertebrates 300
What are [two of the following]?• Most lizards have legs while snakes do not
• Most lizards have moveable eyelids while snakes do not• Most lizards have external ears while snakes do not
These are two functions of a bird’s feathers.
Vertebrates 400
What are [two of the following]?• They keep the birds warm
• They provide coloration for camouflage or for attracting a mate
• They are useful for flight
These are two types of mammals that lay eggs.
Vertebrates 500
What are the platypus and the echidna?
Miscellaneous 100
The Three this system divides all living things into three categories.
What is Domain?
Miscellaneous 200
An animal’s scientific name is made up of its
genus and this.
What is species?
Miscellaneous 300
These are three of the Five Kingdoms of Life.
What are [three of the following]?•Animalia•Plantae•Fungi•Protista•Monera
In the Linnaean classification system,
this is the level of hierarchy just below
Order.
Miscellaneous 400
What is Family?
Hair, fingernails, feathers and reptile
scales are all made of this protein.
Miscellaneous 500
What is keratin?