Animals CW Part 1
Across
- 2. flat-edged teeth used to bite off and cut parts of food
- 4. protective coloration; a common animal defense
- 6. an animal whose body does not produce much internal heat (cold-blooded)
- 7. an organ that produces milk with which mammals feed their young
- 8. sharply pointed teeth that stab food and tear into it
- 10. an arthropod with only two body sections
- 11. an endothermic vertebrate with a four-chambered heart, skin covered with fur or hair, and has young fed with milk from the mother's body
- 12. an animal whose body controls and regulates its temperature by controlling the internal heat it produces (warm-blooded)
- 13. an arthropod that has two or three body sections, five or more pairs of legs, two pairs of antennae, and usually three pairs of appendages for chewing
- 16. an ectothermic vertebrate with lungs and scaly skin; lays eggs with tough, leathery shells
- 17. a mammal whose young are born alive at an early stage of development, and which usually continue to develop in a pouch on their mother's body
- 20. a radially symmetrical invertebrate that lives on the ocean floor and has a spiny internal skeleton
- 23. the animal phylum whose members have a notochord, a nerve cord, and slits in their throat at some point in their lives
- 24. teeth that, along with premolars, grind and shred food into tiny bits
- 25. an internal skeleton
Down
- 1. an appendage on the head of some animals that contains sense organs
- 3. the bones that make up the backbone of an animal (vertebrae)
- 4. a large feather that helps give shape to a bird's body
- 5. short, fluffy feather that traps heats and keeps a bird warm
- 9. a mammal that develops inside its mother's body until its body systems can function independently
- 14. a vertebrate that lives in water and has fins
- 15. an endothermic vertebrate that has feathers and a four-chambered heart, and lays eggs
- 18. an ectothermic vertebrate that spends its early life in water and its adulthood on land, returning to water to reproduce
- 19. a flexible rod that supports a chordate's back
- 21. an arthropod with three body sections, six legs, one pair of antennae, and usually one or two pairs of wings
- 22. an outer skeleton