Jeopardy

To change so as to fit a new situation

$100What is to adapt?

To pass the summer in an inactive state or

resting state

$100What is aestivate?

A living being having sensation and

voluntary movement

$100What is animal?

Forward facing eyes that focus simultaneously on an object and gives the

animal depth and perception

$100What is binocular vision?

One of the hard pieces of the skeleton of an

animal that has a backbone

$100What is bone?

$100What is carnivore?

A flesh eating animal, a meat-eating mammal or

plant that eats insects

The preservation of a resource, especially

natural resources such as soil, water, or forests from

loss, pollution or waste

$200What is conservation?

Any condition that damages or weakens

part of the body

$200What is disease?

An animal that is active during the day

$200What is a diurnal?

The state of being unlike; a variety

$200What is diversity

An animal that makes its own internal heat by burning food. All

mammals are this

$200What is endothermic?

$200What is extinct?

A term which describes a

species that has died out

An animal that eats both plants and animals

$300What is omnivore?

Animals with a backbone

$300What is vertebrate?

The people or things that exist or live in a

particular place

$300What is population?

An animal that eats the flesh of others; the

hunter

$300What predator?

A series of living things, each one of which is

eaten by the next in line

$300What is a food chain?

Animals that maintain their body temperatures

regardless of the surrounding temperatures

$300What is a warm-blooded?

The object of the hunt; the victim or quarry

$300What is prey?

To pass the winter in an inactive or resting state

$300What is hibernate ?

Without a spinal column or backbone

$300What is invertebrate?

$300

The stages of an organism’s life

What is life cycle?

$300

Animal movement: run, swim, hop, fly,

slither

$300What is locomotion?

To travel from one region or climate usually on a

regular schedule to another for feeding or breeding

$400What migrate?

When an animal has eyes that are placed on the side of the skull which gives it a wide

peripheral vision

$400What is monocular vision?

An animal that is active at night

$400What is nocturnal?

The young of humans, animals, or

plants

$400What is offspring?

List are the characteristics common to all mammals?

$500Only mammals have hair. Mammals nurse their young, are warm-blooded, have larger

well-developed brains and move around using their limbs.

$500Canines : large dagger like teeth used for grabbing, killing and holding onto prey Incisors: front teeth (can be large or small depending on the animal’s needs) used

for cutting and biting food, Premolars: sharp, slicing teeth that work like scissors to cut and tear chunks of meat Molars: relatively flat teeth used for grinding food

What are the different types of teeth that a

mammal may have and the purpose of each kind of

tooth.

Name the advantages of being warm-blooded. Tell how mammals maintain their inner temperature.

$500It allows them to be active and to live in habitats that cold-blooded animals can’t. Mammals burn food, sweat, pant,

change body posture and their place in the world(shade, shelter) to help maintain their body temperature.

Explain what scat can tell mammalogist and describe the

scat you would find from a herbivore, carnivore and

omnivore

$500Daily Double!!!

1. Explain the function of fur. Some mammals have two

layers of fur.2. Describe and explain the

function of the undercoat and top layer of fur.

$500Daily Double!!!