Animal Classification

Question 1

What animal is an example of a vertebrate?

Accepted Answer

snake

Question 2

A scientist observes an animal on a beach shore that has scales and an internal skeleton. It is

Accepted Answer

a fish

Question 3

Which of the following would be least useful in a classification of mammals?

Accepted Answer

color of hair/fur

Question 4

What is the largest group of animals?

Accepted Answer

invertebrates

Question 5

What type of vertebrate has smooth, moist skin, four limbs, and lays jelly-like eggs in water?

Accepted Answer

amphibian

Question 6

Which of the following would be least useful in a classification scheme for mammals?

Accepted Answer

color of hair

Question 7

What does "warm-blooded" mean?

Accepted Answer

body temperature that stays the same

Question 8

ALL reptiles have four limbs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

What is a characteristic of reptiles?

Accepted Answer

use lungs to breathe

Question 10

What does "cold-blooded" mean?

Accepted Answer

body temperature that changes with the environment

Question 11

Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals all belong to which group?

Accepted Answer

vertebrates

Question 12

What is a vertebrate?

Accepted Answer

animal with a backbone

Question 13

Birds are warm-blooded animals covered with feathers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What is the largest group of Invertebrates (includes insects, lobsters, crabs, and spiders)?

Accepted Answer

Arthropods

Question 15

I am a cold-blooded animal with fins and gills.

Accepted Answer

fish

Question 16

Insects, arachnids, worms, and mollusks all belong to which group?

Accepted Answer

invertebrates

Question 17

Which of the following sea animals would be classified as an invertebrate?

Accepted Answer

squid

Question 18

What factors would be used to classify vertebrate animals?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 19

How is a fish different from a jellyfish?

Accepted Answer

A fish has a backbone

Question 20

All vertebrate animals have

Accepted Answer

backbones

Question 21

Which of the following is true about vertebrates?

Accepted Answer

vertebrate bodies are more complex than invertebrates

Question 22

Scientists observe an animal with a little fur and wings. This animal is a

Accepted Answer

bat

Question 23

What group of animals have the most complex bodies?

Accepted Answer

vertebrates

Question 24

I am a warm-blooded animal with hair or fur.

Accepted Answer

mammal

Question 25

What animal is an example of an Invertebrate?

Accepted Answer

snail

Question 26

I am a cold-blooded animal that has scaly skin, I lay eggs, and breathe with lungs.

Accepted Answer

reptile

Question 27

Animals are divided into two large groups: Vertebrates and Invertebrates.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

A student found an egg in a pile of leaves. It's shell was leathery. What could have laid it?

Accepted Answer

lizard

Question 29

What is classification?

Accepted Answer

sorting or grouping things which are alike in some way

Question 30

I am a warm-blooded animal that breathes with lungs, lays eggs, and is covered with feathers.

Accepted Answer

bird

Question 31

I am a cold-blooded animal that has webbed feet and slimy skin.

Accepted Answer

amphibian

Question 32

What is an invertebrate?

Accepted Answer

animal without a backbone

Question 33

Which animals are cold-blooded, live on land and in water, and go through metamorphosis?

Accepted Answer

amphibians

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