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30 Cards in this Set
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How many species of mammals are there |
4500 |
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Class mammalia gets its name from the glands that produce what |
Milk |
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The golden age of mammals was |
50 to 30 million years ago |
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Most mammals are color blind only what can distinguish colors |
Primates reptiles and birds |
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Fastest land animal on Earth belongs to what order |
Carnivora |
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Mammals are classified as endothermic because they |
Produce their body heat internally |
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What type of mammal lays eggs and produces milk from the abdomen |
Echidna |
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How much do birds outnumber other vertebrates except fish |
8600 species |
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Which order includes mammals with trunks |
Proboscidea |
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What is the unique trait that birds have and other mammals don't |
Feathers |
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Mammals are the only animals to have a |
diaphragm |
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When studying the evolution of birds it's obvious that birds come from |
Reptiles |
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Flightless birds evolved on |
Islands |
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More than what percent of birds are monogamous for mating |
90% |
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What is the significance of finding the fossil archaeopteryx |
It is the bird of evolution putting together the link between birds and reptiles |
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What mammal has the longest migration |
humpback whale |
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Mammals have highly developed brains especially the what |
Cerebrium |
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Did what is highly folded outer layer |
Cerebral cortex |
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The what is responsible for balance and movement |
Cerebellum |
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Numerous group of mammals on Earth |
rodentia |
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There two types of carnivores |
dogs and cats |
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There's little fossil records of birds because of |
The bones are Hollow and Light |
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Mammals have a what chambered heart |
Four-chambered heart |
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Because of high metabolic rate mammals must eat nearly how many times more food than reptiles |
Twice as much |
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The blank filters the blood and other waste |
Kidney |
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What is not a marsupial |
Echidna |
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List four main characteristics of mammals |
Hair mammary glands endothermic and layer of fat |
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List five things of the entire bird Anatomy around flight and it's perfection |
Wings light hollow bones efficient respiratory system eat high energy food finely-tuned nervous system and acute senses |
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The origin of flight was the result of a complex adaptive pressure the three main reasons being |
Air stocked with insects offered escaped with insects migration |
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List and describe four main types of bird wings |
Elliptic Wings are in forested habitats High speed wings for long migrations Soaring wings for aerodynamic efficiency High-lift to carry heavy loads |