Classification of Plants and Animals

To sort things into groups according to their features or characteristics

• classify
• organism
• reproduce
• plant

Living thing.  Examples include trees, birds, grasses, worms, ants

• classify
• reproduce
• organism
• senses

Which of the following is an example of a living organism.

• couch
• dog
• laundry basket
• sock

When living things make new living things of the same kind they _______________.

• classify
• reproduce
• backbone
• fish

A plant part in which seeds form

• stem
• leaf
• spore
• flower

Contains a tiny new plant and protects the new plant and stores food to help it start growing.

• flower
• seed
• cone
• spore

Plant part covered with scales.  Seeds form on the scales of this.  Pine trees, spruce trees, and cedar trees have have these.

• flowers
• spores
• cones
• walnuts

Tiny cells that can grow into new plants.  Plants that produce these are moss, ferns, and lichens.

• spores
• cones
• flowers
• vertebrates

Plants that make seeds in cones or produce spores instead of seeds

• flowering plants
• seeds
• non-flowering plant
• pine tree

Row of connected bones down the middle of the back

• collar bone
• tail bone
• backbone
• pork chop