Vertebrates

What are vertebrates?

• Animals with a backbone
• Animals without a backbone

There are five categories of vertebrates.  Which one is not a vertebrate?

• Mammals
• Birds
• Arthropods
• Reptiles

What am I?

• Mammal
• Amphibian
• Bird
• Reptile

My body is moist and smooth, I lay eggs, and live in or near the water.  What am I?

• Amphibian
• Reptile
• Bird
• Fish

My body is warm and covered in feathers.  I lay eggs which hatch into chickens.  What am I?

• Reptile
• Amphibian
• Mammal
• Bird

My body is warm, I have fur, feed my young on milk, and have live births.  What am I?

• Reptile
• Bird
• Mammal
• Fish

I am covered in dry scales and I lay eggs.  What am I?

• Mammal
• Fish
• Amphibian
• Reptile

My body is cold, am covered in scales, use gills to breathe under water, and I lay eggs.  What am I?

• Fish
• Mammal
• Reptile
• Amphibian

What am I?

• Fish
• Reptile
• Amphibian
• Mammal

Which of the following is a vertebrate?

• Amphibian
• Echinoderm
• Arthropod
• Annelid

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2