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Characteristics Of Mammals, Orders Of Placental Mammals Marsupials, Oviparous Mammals. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Kangaroos travel and groups called _____.
a) Packs
b) Mobs
c) Bands
d) Prides

What type of tail is capable of grabbing?
a) Clutching
b) Segmented
c) Grasping
d) Prehensile

What is the group of marine mammals with comb like plates for capturing food?
a) Porpoises
b) Baleen whales
c) Sperm whales
d) Dolphins

What is the dormant state called that some mammals enter in winter?
a) Hyperthermia
b) Winter sleep
c) Hibernation
d) Coma

Some moved mammals are known for their head extensions of dead bone without a covering. What are these structures called?What are the structures called?
a) Horns
b) Antlers
c) Vibrissae
d) Appendages

What is the largest mammal?
a) Blue whale
b) Elephant
c) Great white shark
d) Humpback whale

What is the term that refers to an animal without a backbone?
a) Vertebrate
b) Invertebrate
c) Exoskeleton
d) Endoskeleton

Because they do not eat plants, the only group of mammals considered truly carnivorous are _____.
a) Walruses
b) Seals
c) Mustelids
d) Felines

What is the general name for animals that chew cud?
a) Ungulates
b) Bovids
c) Ruminates
d) Equids

Mammals who's young develop in a uterus or womb are what kind of mammals?
a) Oviparous
b) Prenatal
c) Marsupial
d) Placental

What do you call an animal that eats both plants and animals?
a) Herbivore
b) Omnivore
c) Insectivore
d) Carnivore

A slow-moving arboreal xenarthran with large claws is called the ______.
a) Hedgehog
b) Slug
c) Sloth
d) Shrew

What is an internal skeleton called?
a) Vertebrate
b) Invertebrate
c) Exoskeleton
d) Endoskeleton

How are bats able to find their insect prey?
a) Smell
b) Stalking
c) Echolocation
d) Chance

What is the largest group of mammals?
a) Rodents
b) Primates
c) Marsupials
d) Sirens

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