What is the difference between cold blooded and warm blooded vertebrates?

Answer 1

Warm blooded animals generate their own heat through their metabolism.

Cold blooded animals need warmth of the environment to bring their bodily temperature to normal temp.

The main difference between a cold-blooded animal and a warmblooded one is that the warmblooded one has a physiology that includes mechanisms that heat and keep the body warm. The cold-blooded animal lacks these things and its body temperature will change in response to the weather (hot sun, snow) and what the animal can do to avoid the effects of that weather (like a lizard sunning on a rock early in the moring or hiding in the shade at noon).

Warm blooded animals have a constant temperature, and can live in cold temperatures. Cold blooded animal's blood temperature depends on their environment's temperature.

Answer 2

All vertebrates are either cold-blodded or warmblooded.Warm-blooded means that the animal's body stays the same no mater what the temperature of its surroundings are. Most warmblooded animals sweat cool off, or gain fat to keep warm.

Cold-blooded animal's body temperatures change depending on their surroundings. In other words, if a cold-blooded animals surroundings are cold, then the animal's body temperature will become cold as well.

Answer 3

Cold-blooded vertebrates, like reptiles and amphibians, rely on external sources of heat to regulate their body temperature, while warm-blooded vertebrates, like birds and mammals, can internally regulate their body temperature. Cold-blooded animals are more dependent on their environment for temperature regulation, while warm-blooded animals can maintain a relatively constant body temperature regardless of external conditions.

Answer 4

Cold blooded vertebrates usually can't walk,run etc.-warm blooded vertebrates can.