Chapter 32 Test

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. What is NOT a mammal?

a. Bottlenose dolphin c. Hammerhead shark
b. Manatee d. Blue whale
____ 2. Which of these mammals is a monotreme?
a. kangaroo c. opossum
b. chimpanzee d. platypus
____ 3. Most marsupials are found in
a. America. c. Antarctica.
b. Africa. d. Australia.
____ 4. The main advantage of hair is that it
a. can be shed. c. protects the skin.
b. conserves body heat. d. provides mucus.
____ 5. A jaw that has small incisors and canines but large premolars and molars may belong to a
a. wolf. c. dolphin.
b. horse. d. beaver.
____ 6. The folds in the mammalian brain
a. secrete necessary fluids.
b. form ridges for storing learned behavior.
c. increase the brain’s surface area.
d. transfer heat from the body to the environment.
____ 7. _______ are examples of egg-laying mammals.
a. Numbats and lemurs c. Anteaters and shrews
b. Platypusses and spiny anteaters d. Seals and whales

Matching

• Put the correct mammal classification with the correct mammal.

a. Placental c.
Monotreme

b.
Marsupial

____ 8. Pig
____ 9. Possums
____ 10. Duck-billed platypus
____ 11. Kangaroo
____ 12. Armadillo
____ 13. Echidna
____ 14. Koala Bear
 Completion
Complete each statement.

Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement. Use these choices:
cud chewing gland monotreme therapsids
diaphragm mammary glands placenta uterus
gestation marsupial placental mammal

15. A ____________________ is a mammal in which the young have a second period of development inside a
pouch made of skin and hair found on the outside of the mother’s body.
16. In most mammals, nourishment of the young inside the uterus occurs through an organ called the
____________________, which develops during pregnancy. This organ is instrumental in passing oxygen to
and removing wastes from the developing embryo.
17. A ____________________ is a group of cells that secretes substances needed by an animal for temperature
regulation, reproduction, or other life processes.
18. A mammal that carries its young inside the uterus until birth is a _________________________.
19. Scientists can trace the origins of the first mammals back to ____________________, a group of reptilian
ancestors that had features of both reptiles and mammals.
20. The time during which young placental mammals develop inside their mother is called
____________________.
21. The ____________________ is a hollow muscular organ in female mammals in which the development of
offspring takes place.
22. A ____________________ is the sheet of muscle located beneath the lungs that is used to expand and
contract the chest cavity of mammals.
23. Female mammals have _________________________, which secrete milk, enabling mammals to nourish
their young until the young are mature enough to find food.

Essay

24. What is the function of oil glands and scent glands?

25. What is the function of the mammary glands?
26. How does the diaphragm aid a mammal in taking in oxygen?
27. What reproductive strategies help mammals to be successful?
28. List three features that characterize mammals.
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Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: C PTS: 1
2. ANS: D PTS: 1
3. ANS: D PTS: 1
4. ANS: B PTS: 1
5. ANS: B PTS: 1
6. ANS: C PTS: 1
7. ANS: B PTS: 1

MATCHING

8. ANS: A PTS: 1
9. ANS: B PTS: 1
10. ANS: C PTS: 1
11. ANS: B PTS: 1
12. ANS: A PTS: 1
13. ANS: C PTS: 1
14. ANS: B PTS: 1

COMPLETION

15. ANS: marsupial

PTS: 1
16. ANS: placenta

PTS: 1
17. ANS: gland

PTS: 1
18. ANS: placental mammal

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19. ANS: therapsids

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20. ANS: gestation

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21. ANS: uterus

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22. ANS: diaphragm
 PTS: 1
23. ANS: mammary glands

PTS: 1

ESSAY

24. ANS:
Oil glands lubricate the mammal’s skin and hair. Scent glands enable certain mammals to mark their
territories.

PTS: 1
25. ANS:
The mammary glands produce milk for offspring.

PTS: 1
26. ANS:
The diaphragm expands and contracts the chest cavity, moving air into and out of the lungs.

PTS: 1
27. ANS:
Mammals guard their young and teach them how to survive. The females have mammary glands to nourish
the young until they are mature enough to digest and absorb nutrients from solid food.

PTS: 1
28. ANS:
Answers may vary. Mammals have hair, mammary glands, a diaphragm, and a four-chambered heart.

PTS: 1