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This type of skin covering can be found on both
fish and reptiles.
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What are scales?
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The type of covering found on birds.
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What are feathers?
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Skin, feathers, scales and fur all provide this
to animals.
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What is physical protection?
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Methods animals use that allow them to blend into
their environment to avoid being seen by
predators or prey.
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What is camouflage?
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The process of shedding and replacing parts or
all of ones coat or outer covering.
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What is molting?
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An organ of the body that allows an animal to see.
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What is an eye?
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A part of an animals nervous system that
includes the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
taste and touch.
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What is the sensory system?
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The dark part of the center of the eye where
light enters.
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What is the pupil?
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Making something narrower.
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What is constriction?
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Making something bigger or wider or stretching it.
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What is dilation?
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An organ the pumps blood throughout the body.
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What is the heart?
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The number of times the heart beats in a certain
amount of time.
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What is a heart rate?
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Regular expansion and contraction of the artery
caused by the heart pumping blood through the
body.
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What is a pulse?
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An instrument used for listening to breathing,
heartbeats and other sounds made by the body.
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What is a stethoscope?
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The upper chambers of the heart.
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What are the right and left atrium?
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The shortening of muscle tissue that allows
movement of body parts.
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What is muscle contraction?
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A form of land animal locomotion using two legs.
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What is bipedal locomotion?
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A type of movement that is typical of a snake,
curving in an S shape.
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What is serpentine locomotion?
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The act of bending a joint or limb by the action
of flexor muscles.
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What is flexion?
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The straightening or extending of a limb of the
body by the action of extensor muscles.
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What is muscle extension?
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The taking of food into the body.
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What is ingestion?
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The discharging of waste matter from the body.
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What is excretion?
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The process in which ingested food is broken down
in the body and converted to substances that the
body can absorb.
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What is digestion?
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The uptake of substances by tissues in the body.
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What is absorption?
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To move substances from one place to another via
the blood.
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What is transport?
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A type of germ that causes diseases. Rabies is
an example.
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What is a virus?
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An organism that lives and feeds off organic
material such as bread, wood and other animals.
Ringworm is an example of this organism.
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What is fungus?
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An organism that receives food and energy from
another organism. Fleas, ticks and tapeworms are
examples.
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What is a parasite?
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A local reaction of tissue to irritation that
causes pain and swelling.
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What is inflammation?
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A disease that affects an animal that can also be
passed to humans.
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What is a zoonotic disease?