Warm-Blooded and Cold-Blooded Animals

Discover how warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals get the heat their bodies need.

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Ask where most body-warming heat comes from. Warm-blooded animals make much of it inside their bodies. Cold-blooded animals rely mainly on heat from their surroundings. Both kinds need food.

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A rabbit makes heat inside its body. A turtle can warm up by sitting in sunshine. A turtle warmed by the sun is still called cold-blooded.

1. Which animal makes much of its body-warming heat inside its body? A sunbathing turtle A rabbit A lizard on a warm rock

2. What warms a turtle that is basking in sunshine? Heat from the sun The word turtle Food turning into sunlight

3. Does cold-blooded mean an animal's body is always cold? Yes, even in warm sunshine Yes, it always contains ice No, its body can become warm

4. Which animals need food? Only warm-blooded animals Both warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals Only cold-blooded animals

5. What should you compare when learning these two groups? How they get most of their body-warming heat Whether their names are long Whether they live near a school

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