Classify Animals

Classify Animals

Living Things With

-Multi-Celled Eukaryotes

-Eat to Get Nutrients

-Can Move Around to Meet Basic Needs

Multiple Choice

Animals are organisms that are multi-celled.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Animals make their own food through photosynthesis and do not eat to get nutrients.

• True

• False

Smaller Groups of Animals

• First Question Used to Classify Animals: Does it have a backbone?

• If the answer is yes, it is a vertebrate

• If the answer is no, it is an invertebrate

Multiple Choice

The first question used to classify animals into smaller groups is "Does it lay eggs?".

• True

• False

Vertebrates

Have Backbones (Endoskeletons)

Make Up About 5% of All Animals

Multiple Choice

Animals with backbones are called

• vertebrates

• invertebrates

Invertebrates

Have no backbones (sometimes have exoskeletons)

Make up about 95% of all animals

Multiple Choice

Animals without backbones are

• vertebrates

• invertebrates

Vertebrate Group

Mammals

Vertebrate Group

Birds

Vertebrate Group

Reptiles

Vertebrate Group

Amphibians

Vertebrate Group

Fish

Multiple Choice

Which of the following groups of animals are NOT vertebrates?

• birds

• insects

• fish

• reptiles

Multiple Choice

Which of the following animals would be classified as a vertebrate?

• butterfly

• snail

• spider

• whale

Invertebrate Group

Arthropods

Invertebrate Group

Mollusk

Invertebrate Group

Cnidarians

Invertebrate Group

Echinoderm

Invertebrate Group

Worms

Invertebrate Group

Sponges

Multiple Choice

Which of the following animal groups are invertebrates?

• mammals

• arthropods

• amphibians

• fish

Multiple Choice

Which of these animals are invertebrates?

• bat

• snake

• jellyfish

• chicken

Multiple Choice

How would this animal be classified?

• vertebrate

• invertebrate