Match the words in A with their meanings in B.

rodents vertebrates pinnipeds

carnivore marsupial monotreme

omnivore micro-organisms primates

a. Animals with backbones. The group includes fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.

b. Mammal with no placenta, whose young are born atembryonic stage after short gestation period, then attach to a nipple, usually within a marsupium or under folds of skin.

c. Group of carnivores adapted to marine life, including seals and sea-lions.

d. Animal which eats plants and animals.

e. Group of mammals which includes tarsiers, monkeys, apes and humans.

f. Group of gnawing animals, including mice and rats.

g. Mammal which lays eggs and possesses a cloaca. It feeds its young on milk but lacks nipples.

h. Minute living creatures such as bacteria and protozoa.

i. Animal which eats other animals.

Match each animal from the box with the animal group it belongs to. Some animals can be used more than once.

Herbivores, insects, mammals, cats, reptiles, fish, birds, carnivores, omnivores, amphibians.

crocodile, lion, tiger, bear, hawk, frog, wolf, goldfish, panther, monkey, snake, sparrow, wasp, whale, lizard, fly, jaguar, tortoise, pigeon, cow, fox, beetle, eagle, puma, squirrel, goat, sheep, salmon

3.19 Fill in the gaps in the text below with one of the words given in the box. Some words can be used more than once.

Milk, blood, temperature, skin, brain, mammal(s), internal, flight

WHAT IS A MAMMAL?

A 1)... is an animal which has a backbone and whose well-developed 2)... is protected by a skull. Its heart has four chambers which separate fresh from used 3).... Using the heat generated in its body, a mammal keeps its 4)... temperature much the same no matter what the 5)... of its surroundings. The hair which grows from a mammal's 6)... acts as insulation to help this. All 7).. have mammary glands, which in female mammals develop so that they can feed their young ones on 8)... . Mammals have four limbs, which may be adapted for swimming or, in bats, for 9)….

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