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| organisms that cannot make their own food ex: frog |
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| organisms that are composed of many cells that are specialized to do tasks ex: human |
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| organisms that make their own food ex: plant |
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| animals with backbones ex: rat |
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| animals without backbones ex: octopus |
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| behavior that has been developed from experience |
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| a period of inactivity and decreased body temperature that some animals experience in the winter ex: grizzly bear |
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| period of reduced activity in the summer ex: frogs and toads |
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| an internal control of an animal's natural cycles |
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| chemicals animals use for communication |
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| behavior that does not depend on learning or experience, inherited through genes ex: |
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| an orgNISM COMPOSED OF ONLY ONE CELL ex: amoeba |
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| an organism that can't move because it is attached to something ex: barnecles |
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| an organism that can move they are not attached to something ex: cat |
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| an animal whose body controls and regulates tempature ex: human |
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| an animal who dose not produce body heat thier temature changes with the enviorment ex: worm |
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| advantages to being endothermic |
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| that you don't have to live in a warm climate to survive |
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| disadvantages to being endothermic |
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| is that it takes a lot of energy and you have to eat alot because of that |
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| advantages of being ectothermic |
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| can warm and cool body using the enviorment and dose not have to eat as much |
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| disadvantages to being ectothermic |
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| you can only live in a warm climate also have to hibernate |
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| animal that only eats plants ex: catapiler |
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| animal that only eats meat Ex: dog |
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| animal that eats both plants and meat ex: human |
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| an animal that breaks down dead organisms ex: fungus |
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| an organim that filters plankton out of the water ex: coral |
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| a waxy waterproof outer shell or outer skeleton that protects the animal ex: roach, crab, lobster |
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| An organism that does not have a body divided into sections. Ex Humans, dogs, rats, horses, snails, slugs, snakes |
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| Marking their territory with pheromones |
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| smells.Ex.urine, feces, musk, antler marks, claw marks. |
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| Advantages of living in a group |
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| Safer,numbers protect each other,can warn group of predators,hunt together,find mates easy,protectyoung. |
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| When animals travel long distances to find food, find a mate, or to have a offspring. Ex. Ducks, geese, whales, salmon, hummingbirds |
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| Vertebrates- Side with backbone. Invertebrates- Top side or side opposite of mouth(aboral). |
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| When an non dangerous animal copies the coloration of an dangerous animal or when an animal tries to fool predators with optional illusions. Ex. Eye Spots on moth's wings, penguin, king snake, painted lady butterfly. |
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| Barking, growling, howling, purring, grunting |
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| When the egg is fertilized inside the females body. Ex. Humans, Lions, snakes, chickens. |
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