Plants and Animals

What is the scientific word for putting things into groups in an organized way? 

• sorting
• grouping
• classifying 
• shuffling 

What do we call animals with backbones? 

• vertebrates
• invertebrates
• mammals
• insects

What do we call animals withOUT a backbone? 

• insects
• reptiles
• vertebrates
• invertebrates

What are the five groups of vertebrates?  

• mammals, bugs, spiders, fish, and birds
• mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians
• snakes, turtles, frogs, bugs, birds
• worms, insects, spiders, jellyfish, sponges

The scientific word for cold-blooded is "ectothermic".  Which of the following are cold-blooded?

• humans
• fish
• birds
• mammals

I have hair or fur, give birth to live young, feed my babies milk, breathe with lungs and am endothermic (warm-blooded). What am I?

• fish
• reptile
• bird
• mammal

I breathe with gills, lay eggs, live my whole life in water, and am ectothermic (cold-blooded). What am I?

• birds
• fish
• mammals
• amphibians 

I breathe with lungs, lay eggs, and am endothermic (warm-blooded).  What am I?  

• birds
• fish
• mammals
• amphibians 

I breathe with lungs, lay eggs, am ectothermic (cold-blooded), and often have scaly skin.  What am I?  

• fish
• mammals 
• birds
• reptile 

I live part of my life in water and part on land.  I am born with gills but grow lungs.  I am ectothermic (cold-blooded).  I have moist smooth skin.  What am I? 

• fish
• bird
• amphibian 
• mammal