animal classification jeopardy

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?