Ectothermic, meaning outside (ecto) heat (therm). the alternative to this would be endothermic, such as mammals and avians.
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The term doesn't apply. Warm-blooded and cold-blooded are ways of describing the metabolisms of animals. Sand is not an animal or even alive.
The scientific term for a cold blooded animal is Poikilotherm it is also ectothermic
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they are cold blooded in the scientific term would be ectothermic by smarty101
Exothermic is a term meaning cold-blooded. Endothermic means warm-blooded.
A dog of any breed is endothermic, able to maintain its own body temperature. It is a mammal, and mammals and birds are endothermic. The term 'endothermic' is the biological term for an animal that is warm-blooded.
There are many animals that are ectotherms (the term cold-blooded is not used as frequently because their blood temperature can often be much higher than that of other animals). These animals include; insects, reptiles, amphibians and fish.
they are cold blooded so if you put them in warm water they will die since they cant adapt to the temperature
Yes. A swan is endothermic, able to maintain its own body temperature. It is a bird, and mammals and birds are endothermic. The term 'endothermic' is the biological term for an animal that is warm-blooded.
No, all cold blooded animals are not carnivores. The term "cold blooded" only refers to how the animal generates body heat. For example, honey bees are cold blooded. They bundle together and flap their wings to generate body heat, but they are herbivores, not carnivores.
Rather than the common term, cold-blooded, they are ectothermic. Which means they take their body temperature from their surrounds.
AnswerCold blooded, along with reptlies and amphibians. Cold-blooded animals are now called ectotherms, for the term cold-blooded is misleading. Cold-blooded organisms maintain their body temperatures in ways different from mammals and birds. The term is now outdated in scientific contexts. Cold-blooded creatures were, initially, presumed to be incapable of maintaining their body temperatures at all. They were presumed to be "slaves" to their environments. Whatever the environmental temperature was, so too was their body temperature.