Animal groups and habitats

Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, plus the words that come with them: vertebrate, predator, habitat, camouflage, migrate, hibernate, endangered and more. Twenty-four clues for a life-science unit, written so each one names a feature students can look for in a real animal.

Games with this list

• Clue Bingo
• Match Up
• Summit Scramble
• I Have, Who Has?
• Talk Around It
• Act, Draw or Say
• Claim the Grid
• Quiz Night

The list

	Clue	Answer
1	Has hair or fur and feeds milk to its young	Mammal
2	Has feathers and lays eggs	Bird
3	Has dry, scaly skin, like a lizard or snake	Reptile
4	Lives in water when young and on land as an adult, like a frog	Amphibian
5	Lives in water and breathes with gills	Fish
6	Has six legs and three body parts	Insect
7	Has eight legs, like a spider	Arachnid
8	An animal with a backbone	Vertebrate
9	An animal without a backbone	Invertebrate
10	An animal that eats only plants	Herbivore
11	An animal that eats mostly other animals	Carnivore
12	An animal that eats both plants and animals	Omnivore
13	An animal that hunts other animals for food	Predator
14	An animal that is hunted for food	Prey
15	The natural home of an animal	Habitat
16	To spend the winter in a deep sleep	Hibernate
17	To travel far away when the seasons change	Migrate
18	Colors or patterns that help an animal hide	Camouflage
19	A body part or behavior that helps an animal survive	Adaptation
20	So few are left that they could die out	Endangered
21	No longer living anywhere on Earth	Extinct
22	Awake at night and asleep during the day	Nocturnal
23	A big change in body form, like caterpillar to butterfly	Metamorphosis
24	Shows who eats whom, from plants to top predators	Food chain

More science topics

• Planets and the solar system
• The human body
• States of matter
• The first 20 elements
• Plants and how they grow
• Weather and the water cycle
• Rocks and the Earth
• Dinosaurs