5th grade Life Science Classification

What is the difference between an amphibian and a fish?

• Amphibians breathe with lungs while fish breathe with gills.

• Amphibians breathe with gills while fish breathe with lungd

• Amphibians and fish breathe with gills.

• Amphibians and fish breathe with lungs.

Animals that do not have a backbone are called….

• vertebrates

• invertebrates

What is the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate?

• Vertebrates do not have a backbone: invertebrates have a backbone.

• Neither vertebrates nor invertebrates have a backbone.

• Vertebrates have a backbone: invertebrates do not have a backbone.

• Both vertebrates and invertebrates have a backbone.

Microorganisms break down dead plants and animals making nutrients available. These organisms are...

• beneficial

• harmful

How are microorganisms harmful?

• Microorganisms cause diseases and make people sick.

• Microorganisms are not harmful.

• Microorganisms cause the sky to turn blue.

• Microorganisms cause plants to turn green.

Microorganisms that helps humans break down and digest food are

• harmful

• beneficial

________ is made from a beneficial microorganisms.

• strept throat

• grass

• carrots

• yogurt

How do vascular plants get water?

• Vascular plants have tubes.

• Vascular plants do not have tubes

• Vascular plants absorb water.

Animals that have the same body temperature regardless of their surroundings are called

• Warm-blooded

• cold blooded

Animals that have hair or fur, give birth to live young, make milk for their young and breathes with lungs are called_____

• mammals

• reptiles

• amphibians

• fish