S Group: Chapter 17: Birds and Mammals page 440 (you may type the answers, or hand write)
Objectives (what you should know by the time we are finished)
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Describe two kinds of feathers
Describe how a bird’s diet, breathing, muscles, and skeleton help it fly
Explain how lift works
Describe how birds raise their young
Describe characteristics of mammals
Identify the different types of birds
Explain how placental mammals develop
Warmup:
How did the domestication of mammals change the lives of humans?
Define the following AND state the function where it states to do so:
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preening (and function)
molting (and function)
down feather (and function)
contour feather
lift
brooding
crop (and function)
gizzard (and function)
intestine
adaptation
conservation
QUESTIONS: WRITE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES (Chapter 17 Section 1)
1. What are some adaptations birds have to help them fly? (List 5 things)
2. Describe the path food takes in a bird. Compare that to how food passes through humans. What are three
differences?
3. Name at least four human body characteristics that are poorly adapted for flight.
QUESTIONS: WRITE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES (Chapter 17 Section 3-5)
4. Describe seven common characteristics of mammals.
5. What does the fossil record tell us about mammals?
6. Define the following terms:
a. incisors
b. canines
c. mammary glands
d. endothermic
e. gestation period
f. placental mammal
g. pinnipeds
h. cetaceans
i. primates
j. monotreme
k. marsupial
7. What is the difference between endangered and extinct?
8. Why are many marsupials endangered or extinct?
9. Most bats and cetaceans use echolocation. Why don’t these mammals rely solely on sight to hunt and sense
their surroundings?
ACTIVITY:
1. Do the critical thinking worksheet that is on my webpage
2. Many carnivores are endangered because of habitat loss, hunting, and poaching. Choose a carnivore that is
endangered. Write a PERSUASIVE letter to a person (who you have found on the internet) that could help in
conservation of this animal asking if they would actually protect this animal and allocate funding to do so.
3. There are several animals that have been the objects of fear and adoration among Native American Indians,
Africans, and Asians. For instance, some people believe that eating a shrew’s heart will endow them with
strength. Look up some of these beliefs and list 4 animals that an group looks at as an object of adoration or fear
and list the reasons why.
Group
Animal
Fear or adoration/why?