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BIRDS

THE PHYLUM CHORDATA, SUBPHYLUM VERTEBRATA

CLASS AVES

READING ASSIGNMENTS	PAGES
GENERAL INFORMATION	480-484 RESPIRATION, TEMP CONTROL, AND EXCRETION
SPECIFIC TO GROUP	714-721

QUESTIONS

1. Where do they live? What are examples of their habitat and food source?

2. How are these animals important to humans and the environment?

3. How are these animals unique?

4. How do they support their shape? Do they have a skeleton?

5. How do they get oxygen and get rid of Carbon Dioxide?

6. How do these animals reproduce? What is the life cycle like?

7. What is their nervous system like? Do they have specific sensory structures?

8. What type of circulatory system do these animals have?

9. What is their excretory system like? How do they eliminate the wastes we get rid of as urine?

10. How do these animals digest their food? Do they have a complete digestive system?

11. What are some examples of this group of animals?

12. How do birds fly? Are there different types of flight?

13. What are feathers and what benefit are they to the birds?

14. How are the birds beak and feet adapted to where they live?

15. Birds are Endotherms. What does that mean? Why do birds need to be endotherms?

16. How does the bird respiratory system differ from all of the other respiratory systems?

17. Do birds fertilize internally or externally?