Animals and Plants

What part of the fish helps it balance?

• Fins

• gills

• lungs

Compare hoe fish and manatees meet their need for oxygen.

• Both take oxygen from the water.

• Fish rise to the surface to breathe air. Manatees take oxygen from the water.

• Fish take oxygen from the water. Manatees come to the surface to breathe.

Which animal has to most legs?

• a fish

• an insect

• an amphibian

How does fur help animals meet their needs?

• It helps the animal fly.

• It helps the animal climb.

• It helps the animal stay warm.

You are investigating how body covering help animals. You put a mitten on one hand. You do not put a mitten on the other hand. Why?

• You want to sort the results.

• You want to compare the results.

• You want to communicate the results.

You use a mitten, shortening, and plastic bags to test how body coverings help animals. Which thing models fur?

• the mitten

• the plastic bags

• the shortening

Marvin wants to record the unique stages of insect life cycle. Which is a stage dragonflies go through that lions do not?

• nymph

• adult

• young

Which animal hatches from an egg?

• deer

• dolphin

• butterfly

Compare insect and mammal life cycles. How in an insect larva different from a young mammal?

• A larva does not look like its parents. A young mammal looks like its parents.

• A larva looks like its parents but a mammal does not.

• A larva is not fully grown but a young mammal is fully grown.

Some trees are very tall. What part of the tree keeps it from tipping over?

• leaves

• roots

• stems