Bill Nye Exam | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated 2024/2025
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How do mammals get their name? - Mammary glands
What order of mammals are pigs in and why? - Artiodactyla because even hooved
What are three important characteristics of mammals? - Have hair, drink milk, warm-blooded
How can a naked mole rat be considered a mammal? - Queen feeds baby's milk
What do mammals have that no other animals do? - Hair
Milk contains... - Water, fat, sugar, protein, vitamins, and minerals
Mammals use the sense of smell to... - Find mates, since danger
What are three purposes of play among animals? - Social, coordination, practicing finding food
What are nocturnal mammals? - Mammals that sleep in day and are active at night
What are three examples of nocturnal mammals? - Fruit bats, ant eaters, vampire bats
How has a bats body been modified from the normal mammalian body plan? - Fingers elongated with
webbing between
Why aren't birds mammals? - No hair, lay eggs not live young
What system is skin a part of? - Integumentary
, What are three functions of skin? - Protection, regulation of body temperature, sensory
The outer layer of skin is called the... - Epidermus
Where is skin the thinnest? - Eyelids
How does sweat cool the body? - Water carries away heat when sweat evaporates
Why do you get goose bumps? - Skin pulls tight to keep from loosing heat
The pigment in our skin is called... - Melanin
What two functions does pigment have? - Allows skin to absorb sunlight, keeps from getting too much
sun
Why do people who live closer to the equator have darker skin? - Get more sunlight
Where is skin the thickest? - Soles of feet
Where is skin most sensitive? - Fingers, lips
What two things are needed to make fuel for our bodies? - Chemicals in food, oxygen
What two things happen in stomach to break down food? - Muscles squeeze, hydrochloric acid breaks
down
What are two reasons the acid does not eat through the stomach lining? - Mucus, new lining every three
days
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