Animal and Plant classification

Which of the following characteristics is used when determining whether to place an animal in the vertebrate group or the invertebrate group?

• Ability to walk on two legs

• Presence of a spinal cord

• Method of respiration (lungs or gills)

• Flow of blood through the body

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Which of the following questions could we ask to distinguish a mammal, such as a spider monkey, from a reptile, such as a crocodile?

• Does the animal have four limbs?

• Does the animal lay eggs to reproduce?

• Does the animal consume food for energy?

• Does the animal have a backbone?

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An organism with a backbone

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Fish

A cold-blooded vertebrate with fins and gills that lives in water.

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Fish

Any of various cold-blooded, usually smooth-skinned vertebrates, characteristically hatching as an aquatic larva with gills and then transforming into an adult having air-breathing lungs.

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Fish

Clara made a list of organisms and classified then into two groups. What would be the best titles for these groups?

Group 1: fish, amphibian, reptile

Group 2: mollusks, arthropods

• Vertebrates and invertebrates

• Seed producers and vertebrates

• Seed producers and invertebrates

• Vertebrates and non-seed producers

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Which of the following contains the largest group of organisms?

• Vertebrates

• Invertebrates

True or False:

All vertebrates lay eggs to hatch their young.

• True

• False

Organisms are typically classified into groups based on

• features they have in common (the same)

• if they are dead or alive

• only if the produced seeds or not

• only if they have backbones or not

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The image above is an example of a(n)

• amphibian

• invertebrate

• mammal

• reptile

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